
China continues to build its military to be the leading player in its region and has a goal of being able to deter the U.S. in a “cross-Strait crisis” with Taiwan by 2027, the U.S. intelligence community (IC) says in its latest unclassified Annual Threat Assessment. A year ago, in the 2022 threat assessment, the IC didn’t specify a year when China expects to have sufficient military capabilities to “deter U.S. intervention in a future cross-Strait crisis,” as the Office…