SpaceWar.com reports: “China poses the top threat to American interests and security globally and is making ‘steady’ progress towards having the ability to seize the self-ruled island of Taiwan, an annual US intelligence report warned Tuesday.

Beijing’s ‘coercive pressure’ against Taiwan and ‘wide-ranging cyber operations against US targets’ were indicators of its growing threat to US national security, said the Annual Threat Assessment by the intelligence community.

‘China presents the most comprehensive and robust military threat to US national security,’ the report said.

The report provides an overview of the collective insights of top US intelligence agencies about the security threats to the US posed by foreign nations and criminal organizations.

It warned that Beijing would keep expanding its ‘coercive and subversive malign influence activities’ to weaken the US internally and globally.

And the Chinese government would seek to counter what it sees as a ‘US-led campaign to tarnish Beijing’s global relations and overthrow’ the Chinese Communist Party, the report said…”