
The U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday released its annual global threat assessment, leading with a wide array of challenges posed by China and its Communist Party leadership, although the report cites numerous threats from other nation states, as well as a host of transnational concerns such as pandemics, cyber and climate change but doesn’t rank any of the threats. “This assessment focuses on the most direct, serious threats to the United States during the next year,” the Office of the…