The Chinese regime is on its way to becoming a “near-peer competitor” for the United States and is the “unparalleled priority” for the country’s intelligence community, the U.S. director of national intelligence (DNI) said on April 14.
“China increasingly is a near-peer competitor, challenging the United States in multiple areas while pushing to revise global norms in ways that favor the authoritarian Chinese system,” Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing in her first public testimony since being confirmed in January.
