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applegrove

(118,577 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 06:54 PM Jul 2020

FBI director says China aims to become "world's only superpower"

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 isn’t the only thing at stake here — so are our health, our livelihoods, and our security," he said.

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FBI director says China aims to become "world's only superpower" (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2020 OP
Trump is working hard to make sure it happens Snake Plissken Jul 2020 #1
This soothsayer Jul 2020 #2
He sure is JDC Jul 2020 #10
+1 dalton99a Jul 2020 #23
And Wray's boss is doing his best to help China achieve that. dawg day Jul 2020 #3
tik tok nt msongs Jul 2020 #4
Another 4 years of trump will make it happen. Turbineguy Jul 2020 #5
Look, THOUSANDS of people aren't gonna survive 4 more WEEKS... Moostache Jul 2020 #7
tRump is bdamomma Jul 2020 #15
They are well on their way already GusBob Jul 2020 #6
They need to have 8 more aircraft carrier groups SoonerPride Jul 2020 #8
Aircraft carriers are the 21st century version on the Maginot Line. hunter Jul 2020 #12
Maybe. SoonerPride Jul 2020 #13
There's no such thing as a superpower or global policeman. hunter Jul 2020 #17
Trump gave up the mystique of American strength with his caravan applegrove Jul 2020 #9
Aims to become? hunter Jul 2020 #11
And............? Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2020 #14
Putin bdamomma Jul 2020 #16
Both nations would like to see us drastically diminished. Neither one has stupid leaders. Hekate Jul 2020 #19
Well, DUH. If I had a buck for every argument I had about the TPP, I could send the grandkids... Hekate Jul 2020 #18
The world of Western greed Chainfire Jul 2020 #20
Well they kidnapped two canadians to try and get canada to flout the Huawei applegrove Jul 2020 #21
Global climate change is going to be the hard stop for the human race. roamer65 Jul 2020 #22
Let them JonLP24 Jul 2020 #24

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
1. Trump is working hard to make sure it happens
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 06:56 PM
Jul 2020

He's going out of his way to destroy everything in is wake as he leaves in January.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
3. And Wray's boss is doing his best to help China achieve that.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:08 PM
Jul 2020

Trump does it by diminishing US's importance and success.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
7. Look, THOUSANDS of people aren't gonna survive 4 more WEEKS...
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:27 PM
Jul 2020

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)
15. tRump is
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:00 PM
Jul 2020

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

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
8. They need to have 8 more aircraft carrier groups
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:29 PM
Jul 2020

Our bloated military budget assures that we’re a super power

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
13. Maybe.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:52 PM
Jul 2020

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.

I’d be perfectly happy cutting that budget by 80% and let China take the reigns of being global policeman.

hunter

(38,309 posts)
17. There's no such thing as a superpower or global policeman.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:09 PM
Jul 2020

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)
9. Trump gave up the mystique of American strength with his caravan
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:38 PM
Jul 2020

of cold hearted plutocrats running things. US might will come back once Biden wins and the experts are back assessing risk and implementing policy.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,399 posts)
14. And............?
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:55 PM
Jul 2020

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

Hekate

(90,616 posts)
19. Both nations would like to see us drastically diminished. Neither one has stupid leaders.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:37 PM
Jul 2020

Neither Xi nor Putin is anyone’s good buddy, and both take a long view.

But yes, our putative president is a Russian asset.

Hekate

(90,616 posts)
18. Well, DUH. If I had a buck for every argument I had about the TPP, I could send the grandkids...
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:33 PM
Jul 2020

...to college.

Just... fuck.

Chainfire

(17,515 posts)
20. The world of Western greed
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:43 PM
Jul 2020

Financed China's rise to power. Who can blame them for being ambitious......

applegrove

(118,577 posts)
21. Well they kidnapped two canadians to try and get canada to flout the Huawei
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:20 PM
Jul 2020

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.

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