Warning: US Is Now 'Target One' for China

We have had our national attention largely focused inwards in recent days, and that's understandable. We do, after all, have parts of one of our major cities consumed by an ongoing rebellion, and that can be distracting. But we must also keep an eye on threats from outside, and in recent days, one of those threats is bubbling back to the surface - perhaps, taking advantage of our distraction?

I speak of China, of course. On a recent Fox Business interview, General Jack Keane warned that the United States is "target one" for China, and he's certainly correct.

The U.S. is "target one" for the Chinese Communist Party, and retired Gen. Jack Keane says that beefing up defenses to stand up against the threat should be high on the list of priorities.
"China is conducting the most comprehensive penetration of our society since we were formed 250 years ago, 249 years now, and we've never seen anything quite like this," he said Tuesday, weighing in on news that a third Chinese national has attempted to smuggle biological materials into the U.S. within the past week.
The Fox News senior strategic analyst joined "Mornings with Maria" where he spelled out the severity of the "comprehensive" threat – cyber espionage, working to interfere with the food supply, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and transportation.

There are indications of much worse, much more dangerous efforts than these, as General Keane adds:

"And in the event of this conflict with China in the Pacific, they would attempt to defeat the American people at home and break their will to support the war, and here we have a biological pathogen smuggling into the country that could attack our agriculture and ultimately our food source, and I think this is more exploration than anything else to detect and see how they can penetrate and how comprehensive this could be for the future."

My colleagues Jennifer Van Laar and Bob Hoge have covered these bioweapon smuggling attempts:

Chinese National Nabbed by DOJ for Allegedly Smuggling in Biological Material—and She's From Wuhan

This, of course, raises the question, how much more material like this was smuggled in under the Biden administration, when border security was as good as non-existent?

China, as we know, is a nation used to playing the long game. Here in the United States, which is approaching our 250th anniversary of independence, we think of our history in terms of hundreds of years. China thinks in terms of thousands. They are used to thinking in terms of taking several generations to achieve a goal. But their time may be running out; their population is facing a demographic collapse, and their economy is perched on the edge of a cliff as well.

China is pushing. They are pushing economically and militarily. They are casting envious eyes on Taiwan and, once that's done, the rest of the Indo-Pacific. Chairman XI knows that the one thing standing in the way of Chinese hegemony in the western Pacific is the United States, and he doubtless knows that a biological weapons attack on our food supply would be crippling. And he also doubtless knows that, for once, time is not on China's side.

We are right to be concerned about insurrection in our own cities. But we need to keep an eye on China as well, including bearing in mind that there are thousands, tens of thousands, maybe more, Chinese nationals illegally in our nation right now. We must also ask ourselves, how many of them are in these cities currently in rebellion, and what are they doing?

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