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What Do US Spies Really Think About China?

Challenges abound: US intelligence chiefs testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats on 9 March 2023

Challenges abound: US intelligence chiefs testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats on 9 March 2023. Image: Associated Press / Alamy


While the US intelligence community’s latest threat assessment is right to focus on advances in China’s military, economic and technological capabilities, it omits too much when it comes to the country’s domestic political challenges. These matter, because what happens in China does not stay in China.

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