The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses the biggest threat to the United States.
Even the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the embattled intelligence agency, understands this, writing, “The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States.”
From the Belt and Road Initiative to forging strategic alliances with supposed U.S. allies, the CCP and its leader Xi Jinping are more emboldened today with a weaker U.S. under President Joe Biden.
Why? The Biden administration, sadly, views China as a “strategic competitor” and not a threat like Russia. The recently-unveiled National Security Strategy document claims, “(China), by contrast, is the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to advance that objective.”
With the Biden administration downplaying the CCP’s threat, red state governors and bipartisan members of Congress appear to be charting a different course.
Growing opposition to TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by ByteDance, an a-CCP-owned company, is one of the few areas where elected Republicans and Democrats agree. And even journalists are recognizing its spyware.