Former NATO supreme commander: China could supplant US as world leader by 2020 [View all]
Source: The Hill
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Jim Jones says China – not Russia – is the most concerning threat to the United States.
Jones, a former NATO European supreme commander, said China hasn’t been exactly shy about its ambitions to surpass the U.S. on the world stage.
“China is a much longer-term problem. I think China has the stated goal of trying to replace the United States…by 2020, 2040,” Jones told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on Monday.
“They’re doing this in a very quiet way – sometimes not so quiet, but there’s no mistaking what their long-term ambition is and we’re going to have to deal with that,” Jones continued.
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