The Pentagon’s chief strategist believes that communist China is posing an existential threat to the United States after abandoning its old strategic policy of “hiding its light.
James H. Baker, head of the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), said it is unclear whether “elites across the political spectrum in the United States understand the dangers posed by China [the Communist Party] as a competitor,” according to the Washington Times.
“The relative military advantage of the United States and its allies remains, but is being systematically undermined by increased Chinese (CCP) investment, training and basing,” Baker said.
Still, he said, China’s prosperity depends on globalization, which “will curb (the CCP’s) more radical tendencies.”
By 2020, the Trump administration already sees the CCP as a major adversary of the United States. Just this month, China (the Chinese Communist Party) launched another widespread computer hacking attack, this Time targeting Microsoft’s email servers.
The hack was an attempt by the Chinese Communist Party to steal personal information and other data from millions of Americans. The FBI estimates that the CCP has stolen the private identity data of half the U.S. population.
As chief strategist to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Baker leads ONA’s ongoing efforts to develop options and assessments for the next U.S. operations, according to The Washington Times.
Baker sounded the alarm about the threat from China and Russia in a speech back in July 2017. His speech was titled “The Rise of Eurasian Revisionist Forces (Iran, Russia, Communist China) and the Implications for the Japan-U.S. Alliance.”
In his speech, Baker expressed his views on the “revisionist” countries of China, Russia and Iran. The reason for his comments is that China, Russia, and Iran want to subvert the global status quo.
On December 3, 2020, John Ratcliffe, then director of national intelligence, published an article in the Wall Street Journal emphasizing that “the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest security threat to the United States and the greatest threat to democratic freedom around the world since World War II. Resisting Beijing‘s attempts to reshape and dominate the world is the challenge of our generation,” he said.
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