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The ODNI Threat Assesment is the only official stance and is apolitical. China has been top of the list for nation-state threats for more than a decade. https:

• epistasis 9mo ago
  The intelligence community are not US policy makers, and that threat assessment is not policy. The US intelligence community is correct in its assessment, but US policy is not acting in any way consistent with both the US being the dominant world power and taking that ODNI assessment seriously. Current US policy makers are instead trying to hide in their shell like a turtle, and greatly restrict US power so that it must not confront or deal with the threat from China.
• epistasis 9mo ago
  I'm coming back to this a few days later because the official new Pentagon policy deprioritizes China: > The National Defense Strategy — a dramatic shift from even the first Trump administration — no longer focuses primarily on countering China. Instead, it blames past administrations for ignoring American interests and jeopardizing the U.S. military’s access to the Panama Canal and Greenland. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/pentagon-national-defense-strategy-00745499 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/pentagon-national-d... Edit: big news day for China Hawks proving to be frauds, this is from the WSJ Trump Administration Pushes Out Key Officials Focused on China Tech Threat Departing staffers worked for a Commerce Department office charged with protecting the U.S. from Chinese technological advances https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-pushes-out-key-officials-focused-on-china-tech-threat-cd2dde3f https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-adminis...
  • FuriouslyAdrift 9mo ago
    We've moved from defensive posture to active "grey zone" warfare... https://www.aei.org/op-eds/economic-defense-unit-how-the-u-s-military-wins-in-the-gray-zone/ https://www.aei.org/op-eds/economic-defense-unit-how-the-u-s...