Is China The Greatest Threat To America?

A color guard of US and Chinese flags awaits the plane of China's President Hu Jintao at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland in this April 12, 2010 file photo. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/File

Jim VandeHei, Axios: China is the greatest, growing threat to America

China has outlined strategies for 2018, 2025 and 2050 all designed to displace the United States as the dominant global economic and national security superpower.

Why it matters: While America dawdles and bickers, China is thinking long-term — and acting now, everywhere. There is no U.S. equivalent of a plan for 2025 or 2050 — or really for next year.

China is pouring time, money, infrastructure and trade into every continent, after promising to fill the global void created by Trump’s America First.

* China also has the authoritarian ability to experiment at scale, steal our tech secrets and mobilize capital that no democracy can match.

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Update: Reaction to the above post has been bipartisan .... Special report: Why China scares politicians of all stripes (Axios).