The CCP, led by Chinese President Xi Jinping, has, over the years, by espionage, intellectual property theft, hacking, spying and militarizing artificial islands, initiated a bitter conflict between China and the US. CCP propaganda claims that China is supposedly only responding to America's instigation of a "New cold war" against the People's Republic of China, depicted as a policy to "Contain China's rise."
China already has a formidable array of weaponry based in its coastal provinces opposite Taiwan, to deter the US from engaging in armed conflict with China in the Western Pacific.
Many of the BRI projects have turned out to be debt-traps: China lends a developing country funds for a Chinese-built infrastructure project; then, if the country is unable to repay the debt, China offers to accept instead a port, airbase, rare earth minerals or other assets in lieu of repayment.
In March and August of 2020, China threatened to restrict exports of life-saving medicines to the US. Chinese operatives have been digging up genetically modified seeds in the US Midwest, for transfer to China.
A darker side of these all-out intelligence-collection operations involves attempts to coerce Chinese-American professionals to cooperate with the CCP by pressuring them to return to China or threatening their family members who still reside in China.
While the People's Liberation Army's Strategic Rocket Force is not yet on par with the US or Russian militaries in its quantity of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, in the South China and East China Seas, Beijing has recently upgraded its missile deployment with the DF-17 a hypersonic longer range missile.
China already has a formidable array of weaponry based in Chinese coastal provinces opposite Taiwan, to deter the US from opposing an armed conflict with China in the Western Pacific.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20238/china-unrestricted-warfare
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