Washington – The U. S. intelligence network will need to replenish its focus and realign the resources it has committed to address China’s strategic risk, otherwise Washington’s dangers by ceding its role as a global leader to Beijing, according to the summary of a highly confidential report published Wednesday through the National Intelligence Committee.
“In the absence of significant realignment of resources, the U. S. government will not achieve the effects that will allow the U. S. festival with China to continue on the global stage,” concludes the report, a rare bipartisan product of the long-divided committee.
“The nature and speed of China’s transformation into a nearly equal global competitor requires the support of america’s intelligence community,” he said.
The summary of the partially drafted 37-page report was made public following a closed-door vote in committee on Wednesday.
The report, titled “Deep Analysis” on China’s strategic and intelligence challenges, commissioned by Democratic Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in May 2019. Committee staff on both sides were tasked with assessing the substance. and the effectiveness of paintings made through the 17 agencies of the U. S. intelligence network to collect, analyze, and supply intelligence on Chinese targets.
The review, based on many hours of interviews with intelligence officers and quality controls of thousands of analytical products, also assessed the budget allocations of the intelligence community. The final report includes more than two dozen public recommendations and more than a hundred classified recommendations.
“Our country’s intelligence agencies have many things to do to fully address China’s challenge,” Schiff said in a document attached to the report. “Without significant and rapid reorganization and realignment of resources, we will be ill-prepared to compete with China, diplomatically, economically and militarily, globally for decades.
Among the report’s unclassified findings is that U. S. intelligence agencies place “insufficient importance and focus on mild and interconnected national security threats” “in the long run, adding the possible spread of a pandemic and the effects of climate change.
He also said agencies were in danger of falling behind in terms of generation. “[Chinese technological advances in key areas, such as synthetic intelligence, quantum computing, and 5G telecommunications, challenge the safe pre-eminence of the American generation into turning the technology landscape,” the committee concluded.
The report comes amid historic tensions in U. S. -China relations, exacerbated by failed industry negotiations and an exchange of blame for the global coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than a million lives worldwide.
The Trump administration has filed dozens of charges against Chinese-origin Americans and corporations for espionage and theft of alleged industry secrets, including, in 2019, 3 cases of former intelligence agents accused of delivering classified documents to Chinese intelligence agencies.
“Overall, the committee believes that Chinese intelligence will continue to pose a formidable challenge for the U. S. intelligence community, which will require equivalent resources, humility, and vigilance,” the report said.
It also highlighted Beijing’s competitive participation in influence operations targeting U. S. democratic policies and processes. Current evidence from the intelligence network has shown that China is contemplating more complete interaction in the 2020 presidential election.
“As China’s propaganda and misinformation continue to grow and U. S. -China relations become increasingly controversial, Beijing’s stance is likely to continue to evolve in the months and years to come,” committee staff said.
The committee’s review did not explicitly blame the leaders of the intelligence network or the Trump administration for the breaches, but were attributed to the US. But it’s not the first time The government’s harsh shift from a post-9/11 to strategic threats posed through competitive and contradictory powers such as China and Russia.
“While the United States was busy involving Al Qaeda, Daesh, and its affiliates, ramifications, and acolytes, Washington’s undisputed dominance over the global formula has faded,” according to the report. [China] has used the past two decades to become a country potentially capable of supplanting the United States as the dominant force in the world. “
A Democratic committee official said the report purported to be a call to action, but stopped before saying the United States risked a “massive” intelligence failure without immediate reform.
“Without a more serious review of funding, resources, capacity and leadership, they will prepare for success,” he said.
Committee officials stated that they committed to U. S. intelligence agencies for review and incorporated their perspectives and comments into the report’s findings. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond without delay to a request for comment on the merits of the report.
Officials also said the report is consistent with the panel’s culture of ensuring rigorous monitoring of situations demanding intelligence from China in particular, and follows a bipartisan survey, published in 2012 under the leadership of then-President Mike Rogers, a Republican and member of the Dutch Democratic Party Ruppersberger Rankings, on national security issues raised through Chinese telecom giant Huawei.
The committee has also been running since April in a separate “deep dive,” officials said, on the control of the COVID-19 pandemic intelligence community.