‘Straight Discuss’ on China’s Offensives within the American Homeland 

EXPERT VIEW — 2024 has introduced a number of reminders of the threats – actual and potential – posed by the Folks’s Republic of China (PRC). Over the previous yr, Beijing has had a few of its most violent clashes with the Philippines within the disputed waters of the South China Sea; Chinese language army exercise round Taiwan has elevated; China stands accused of offering army gear to Russia for its warfare towards Ukraine; and the Pentagon’s annual China Army Energy Report – issued Wednesday — discovered that China’s Folks’s Liberation Military (PLA) has expanded its nuclear arsenal. 

The risk from China can be cropping up extra ceaselessly within the U.S. homeland – most prominently within the cyber campaigns performed by the China-backed teams “Volt Storm” and “Salt Storm.” The previous burrowed into U.S. vital infrastructure to preposition cyber intruders for probably disruptive and harmful cyber assaults sooner or later, whereas the latter breached telecommunications networks, concentrating on the gadgets of high officers, together with the telephone of President-elect Donald Trump.