The threat to the United States from China is multifaceted, long-term, and aggressive. Whether it’s from military modernization to economic coercion, cyberwarfare to space competition, China’s national security challenge is global, and it targets U.S. interests, values, security, and standing in the world.
While much of the focus of U.S. policymakers has been on the military threat from China, the communist country has also implemented a multipronged approach to weaken the United States economically, politically, culturally, and diplomatically. It is enlisting a whole-of-government strategy blending civil and military approaches with tactics short of war to expand its influence and improve its geopolitical position.
Its determined plan uses economics, media, education, politics, culture, diplomacy, and information, among many other approaches, in a highly integrated…
