A U.S. military official on Tuesday said Russia and the Chinese regime “may be collaborating” south of the U.S.-Mexico border—namely, Venezuela. U.S. Southern Command chief Navy Admiral Craig Faller said China and transnational criminal organizations are “the two biggest threats” that U.S. forces in the SOUTHCOM, or United States Southern Command, area face. “China is the greatest long-term strategic threat to the security in the 21st century, the Chinese Communist Party’s insidious, and corrosive and corrupt influences at work globally and in this region,” Faller said in a news conference. Faller listed actions the Chinese regime has taken in the SOUTHCOM area of command in recent months. “Some examples include their pursuit of multiple port deals, loans for political leverage, vaccine diplomacy that undermines sovereignty, state surveillance I.T., and the exploitation of resources such as illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing,” he said, adding that the regime has outpaced the United States …