A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.
Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.
Underestimating China isn’t wise, but always using China as the new Boogeyman to get even more trillions invested in “national security” is getting old fast. “Secret reports” my ass. If you’re reading it on the internet it’s most likely plain old FUD.