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FBI director says China aims to become "world's only superpower"
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, author of China
https://www.axios.com/fbi-director-china-superpower-93ba35f1-7ee9-4795-bc88-bf8e84b0e673.html
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FBI Director Christopher Wray gave a speech today at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. in which he laid out "more detail on the Chinese threat than the FBI has ever presented in an open forum."
Why it matters: China's increasingly aggressive behavior under General Secretary Xi Jinping is ringing alarm bells in the U.S.
Details: Wray described the multi-pronged efforts they have seen from China to take advantage of Americans and of U.S. innovation and technology, including the Equifax hack, theft of sensitive military technology, pressure to self-censor, and economic coercion applied to state and local-level U.S. elected officials.
"If you are an American adult, it is more likely than not that China has stolen your personal data. ... Our data isnt the only thing at stake here so are our health, our livelihoods, and our security," he said.
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Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)He's going out of his way to destroy everything in is wake as he leaves in January.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)JDC
(10,121 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Trump does it by diminishing US's importance and success.
msongs
(67,381 posts)Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)WE have lost over 130,000 people and are in the throes of an explosive rise in reported cases AND hospitalizations...that leads inexorably to a HUGE spike in additional DEAD Americans...
At this point, I question whether or not Putin is paying Trump directly for dead Americans - military OR civilian...
bdamomma
(63,810 posts)doing Putin's bidding and after reading this thread below I can believe it, there is a wicked deal between Putin and tRump.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213711395
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Eom
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Our bloated military budget assures that were a super power
hunter
(38,309 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)They can still project power all over the globe.
The fact that we spend what the next 8 countries do combined on our stupid military assures we alone are the global superpower.
Id be perfectly happy cutting that budget by 80% and let China take the reigns of being global policeman.
hunter
(38,309 posts)Hasn't been since the bomb.
We humans can choose to live, or we can die.
The Earth doesn't care.
applegrove
(118,577 posts)of cold hearted plutocrats running things. US might will come back once Biden wins and the experts are back assessing risk and implementing policy.
hunter
(38,309 posts)They already own it.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,399 posts)What about Russia and its American Asset/Chaos Agent in the WH? I'd say that Russia is posing a more effective threat to the world and country at large
bdamomma
(63,810 posts)is spreading his tentacles towards the Middle East. Putin is getting us out of the way for good.
Hekate
(90,616 posts)Neither Xi nor Putin is anyones good buddy, and both take a long view.
But yes, our putative president is a Russian asset.
Hekate
(90,616 posts)...to college.
Just... fuck.
Chainfire
(17,515 posts)Financed China's rise to power. Who can blame them for being ambitious......
applegrove
(118,577 posts)sales to Iran extradition to the US case, about a Huawei executive who lied to congress. I blame them for two innocent men being in prison in China for more than 500 days.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Including China.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'd rather have the world's best universal health care system than being a Super Power.