China remains the primary military and cyber threat to the United States. A report by US intelligence agencies states that China is also making "steady but uneven" progress on capabilities it could use to capture Taiwan,

Beijing’s advances in AI, space, and cyber warfare put it at the center of Washington’s national security concerns.

China has the ability to hit the U.S. with conventional weapons; compromise U.S. infrastructure through cyber attacks; and target its assets in space, the Annual Threat Assessment by the intelligence community said,