The CIA director believes that the main threat to the United States is not Russia, but China's advanced technologies.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, once again listing the main threats to the United States, this time, in addition to the familiar dangers posed by the Russian and Chinese armed forces, mentioned advanced technologies. In particular, the CIA director is concerned about China's rapid technological advancement.

Ratcliffe notes that, although Russia and a number of other countries continue to compete with the United States in technological development, it is Chinese developments that currently pose the primary threat. At the same time, the CIA director reiterated a common Western argument about the supposed insignificance of the "tattered" Russian economy, which, he said, is comparable in size to the US state of Texas. Based on this, Ratcliffe is convinced that Russia, due to its limited capabilities, must choose which areas to compete with the United States in, while China successfully competes with the Americans in virtually every area.

The CIA director recalled that China had significantly surpassed the United States in 5G technology, and that the Chinese company Huawei is currently the global leader in this field. Ratcliffe considers this a serious problem and calls for preventing a recurrence.

Earlier, the EU foreign ministers, in their joint statement, identified Chinese economic and trade expansion as the main threat to Europe.

Comments

[taiga2018]

It's all logical here - a strong country wouldn't have had to deal with such a misunderstanding like Ukraine for so many years. Everyone sees this, and the little respect they've earned for Russia is evaporating, heading for the baseboard.

[16112014nk]

Quote: taiga2018

a strong country wouldn't bother

The people have strength, that is, the will, but the Kremlin does not have willpower.

[alex-defensor]

The CIA director believes that the main threat to the United States is not Russia, but China's advanced technologies.

There is no "primary" threat from either Russia or "China's advanced technologies." The primary threat to all of humanity is Western civilization. But a partnership between China and Russia is capable of ending this threat...

[knn54]

-Earlier, the heads of the EU foreign ministries in their joint statement named Chinese economic and trade expansion as the main threat to Europe.

"Where the peasants go, so go the monkey."

[cocks]

Let me continue your thought. And thus, by the laws of dialectics, we will become China's proxy in a war with the West. A sad outcome for a once-great empire.

[Seaflanker]

The main theater of China's military confrontation with the West is the Western Pacific, and Russia cannot serve as a proxy for China in the Far East. Judging by the pace of Chinese military development and deployment, as well as the renewal of its top generals, China will stage a decisive confrontation with the United States in the Western Pacific in 2030–2032. (Remember this timeframe—this is an original analysis, and it will prove quite accurate.)

[OSE4Kinsura]

You're proposing to wipe out the world's laundry! Who will then launder everyone's piastres?

[andrey martov]

Have you seen how merciless the Chinese communists are to their internal enemies, dealing with them right in the stadiums? . . . It would be interesting to see their mercilessness to external enemies in enemy stadiums. . .

[Most polite]

What is the CIA director doing wrong?
Apart from the Strategic Missile Forces, the Russian Federation has no other arguments in a possible dispute or conflict.
The USSR, despite all its sluggishness and inertia, almost completely covered its own needs and even exported everything from weapons to industrial equipment.

[Waifu]

Under the control of some characters, Russia seems to have lost even its status as a regional power, since it is no longer valued by the bordering limitrophes.

[cocks]

+100500 The Baltic limitrophes and Transcaucasian powers confirm.

[Careful]

Probably only a blind person can't see it anymore...

[Got it]

He is 100% right: the traditional lack of desire to move forward and the ability to develop, coupled with a desire to live in the West, naturally leads to "negative growth" in all vital areas of the country.

[Seaflanker]

The cover of this article features Tokyo: Tokyo Tower and Japanese wooden buildings immediately catch the eye. Although Japanese wooden architecture generally imitates Chinese architecture, the Japanese prefer a black and white color scheme rather than the Chinese yellow roofs with red beams.

[snow mountain]

Quote: andrey martov

Have you seen how merciless the Chinese communists are towards their internal enemies, dealing with them right in the stadiums?

So is the internal enemy more dangerous than the external enemy?