‘Straight Talk’ on China’s Offensives in the American Homeland 

EXPERT VIEW — 2024 has introduced a number of reminders of the threats – actual and potential – posed by the Folks’s Republic of China (PRC). Over the previous 12 months, Beijing has had a few of its most violent clashes with the Philippines within the disputed waters of the South China Sea; Chinese language army exercise round Taiwan has elevated; China stands accused of offering army tools to Russia for its struggle in opposition to Ukraine; and the Pentagon’s annual China Army Energy Report – issued Wednesday — discovered that China’s Folks’s Liberation Military (PLA) has expanded its nuclear arsenal. 

The risk from China can also be cropping up extra incessantly within the U.S. homeland – most prominently within the cyber campaigns carried out by the China-backed teams “Volt Hurricane” and “Salt Hurricane.” The previous burrowed into U.S. essential infrastructure to preposition cyber intruders for doubtlessly disruptive and damaging cyber assaults sooner or later, whereas the latter breached telecommunications networks, concentrating on the gadgets of prime officers, together with the telephone of President-elect Donald Trump.