China remains the United States’ top military and cyber threat, according to a new report by US intelligence agencies that said Beijing was making “steady but uneven” progress on capabilities it could use to capture Taiwan.
China has the ability to hit the United States with conventional weapons, compromise US infrastructure through cyber-attacks, and target its assets in space, as well as seeking to displace the US as the top AI power by 2030, the Annual Threat Assessment by the intelligence community said.
I was going to say the same thing regarding which threats are higher to the average American citizen, or even many government institutions.
In the next few years, I feel that my likelihood of being significantly harmed by state hacking and leaking of information is far greater from the American threats than a foreign power.