According to the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy, China remains the top threat to the U.S. national security interest.
"The [People's Republic of China] is the only competitor out there with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, a power to do so," said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in an October 2022 briefing.
This sentiment isn’t new. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notably gave a scathing review of the communist country in 2020, noting that “today China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else.”
Given the severity of concern, it would behoove our federal government to more closely examine how we can untangle our domestic industries from a web of Chinese relationships.
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