Arms Race

More than 490 of the CCP’s 970 satellites are intelligence-capable satellites, according to a professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College.

U.S. officials and defense analysts have long believed the communist regime’s reported budget captures only a fraction of its true spending on the armed forces.

Since last July, the CCP’s anti-corruption campaign has led to the downfall of more than a dozen high-ranking military officers and defense industry executives.

The Chinese hacking campaign affected dozens of countries worldwide, an administration official said.

The latest breach ‘will go down as maybe one of the most significant cyberattacks’ the United States has ever faced, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said.

September’s launch of a long-range ICBM in the Pacific—China’s first such test in decades—evaluated the missile’s capabilities and sent a political message.

‘Kiribati does not welcome China’s recent ICBM test,’ the island nation’s Presidential Office said.

‘This recent activity demonstrates the increased interest in the Arctic by our strategic competitors,’ a senior U.S. military official said.

The development of AI weapons may be equivalent to the nuclear revolution, according to Bradley Thayer, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy.

“The CCP often uses reverse engineering, and their innovation is limited,” a Taiwanese military expert said.

Communist China is pushing forward in military AI development as the United States has yet to adopt a whole-of-government policy framework for AI.

China’s ambitions with regard to the moon are also among Space Command’s concerns.

‘We need to be strong ... strong means having the capacity to fight the war and overmatch your adversary.’

The Pentagon warned Congress last year that China already “has the world’s leading hypersonic arsenal.”

From joint exercises to defense drills, hypersonic missiles to high-tech outreach, countering China’s ‘dangerous path.’

Europe made a mistake by relying on Russian oil and gas, and the mistake cannot be repeated with China, the NATO chief said.

The updated export restrictions were to take effect on Nov. 16.

Federal prosecutors arrested two Navy sailors on Aug. 3, accusing them of passing along sensitive military information to China and undermining U.S. national security.