Commentary
The threat from communist China is real.
A quick look at The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s (USCC) annual report to Congress confirms this. The agency has identified various threats to the country, including the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ever-evolving cyberwarfare and espionage campaigns. The report emphasizes the CCP’s desire to become a “cyber superpower.”
In this race for cyber dominance, China possesses “an asymmetric advantage over the United States,” largely because Beijing remains unwilling “to play by the same rules,” according to the report. CCP-backed cyber operatives now “pose a serious threat to U.S. government, business and critical infrastructure networks in the new and highly competitive cyber domain.” As China continues to develop “sophisticated offensive cyber capabilities,” the United States must prepare itself for intellectual property theft at an “industrial scale.”…