China "poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since World War II:" US Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

"To address these threats and more, I (DNI) have shifted resources inside the $85 billion annual intelligence budget to increase the focus on China...Other nations must understand this is true for them as well. The world is being presented a choice between two wholly incompatible ideologies. China’s leaders seek to subordinate the rights of the individual to the will of the Communist Party. They exert government control over companies and subvert the privacy and freedom of their citizens with an authoritarian surveillance state." Read the oped here (may require paywall)