U.S. Intelligence warns of China’s “unparalleled” cyberwar threat

Warning of Beijing’s increasing effort to suppress America’s regional adversaries, expansion of its military might while racing to achieve technological superiority across the globe, U.S. Intelligence has termed China as an “unparalleled” security threat.

It is for the first time in two years that top U.S. Intelligence officials have approached the lawmakers to outline an intimidating global threat landscape that included fallout from Russia’s continuing campaign to undermine U.S. influence and fallout from the deadly covid-19 pandemic.

But the two-hour-long hearing before resulted that without a doubt China represented the most serious risk to the United States.

Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence told the Senate panel that “China increasingly is a near-peer competitor challenging the United States in multiple arenas while pushing to revise the global norms in ways that favour the authoritarian Chinese government.”

“it also has substantial cyber capabilities that if deployed, at a minimum, can cause localized, temporary disruptions to critical infrastructure inside the United States,” he added.

FBI Director Christopher Wray who has spoken extensively in the past year said that no other country possesses much severe threat to the United States.

Avril and Wray were accompanied by CIA Director William Burns, Army Lt. Gen Scott Berrier, director of the defence intelligence agency, and National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone.

Such gatherings of the government’s top intelligence leaders to publicly discuss the topic of threat had been a part of Congress’ annual hearing but former President Trump had banned it due to his rigidities with the intelligence community.