The United States is “asleep at the wheel” while communist China has grown into the “most dangerous foreign threat” that is now trying to displace the U.S.-based world order, according to former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, the Republican presidential hopeful described the Chinese Communist Party as “the greatest threat to American security and prosperity.”
“America is China’s number one target,” she said, pointing to a series of Chinese aggressions that include a Chinese fighter jet’s harassment of a U.S. aircraft, a Chinese naval ship that cut off U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait, a Chinese spy balloon that flew over sensitive U.S. missile bases, and Beijing’s recently revealed secret eavesdropping base “in our own backyard on the fellow communist island of Cuba.”…