Spy agencies warn Russia, Iran, China and North Korea are teaming up against US like never before

America’s four great adversaries — China, Iran, North Korea and Russia — are increasingly acting in unison to undercut US interests, the intelligence community revealed Tuesday.The 30-page threat assessment issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence singled out China as the “actor most capable of threatening US interests globally, though it is also more cautious than Russia, Iran, and North Korea about risking its economic and diplomatic image in the world by being too aggressive and disruptive.”“Many of the threats we face are truly existential,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said during a Tuesday hearing scheduled around the report’s release.

“Communist China is actively working to replace the United States as the world’s dominant superpower.“Given these threats, we have to ask are our intelligence agencies well-postured against these threats? I’m afraid the answer is no, at least not yet.”The assessment found that “China is using complex, whole-of-government campaigns featuring coercive military, economic, and influence operations short of war to assert its positions and strength against others, reserving more destructive tools for full-scale conflict.”In the meantime, ODNI found, Beijing is expected to “apply stronger coercive pressure against Taiwan” in 2025 “to further its goal of eventual unification” with the island, while pushing its claims in the South and East China Sea against US allies such as Japan and the Philippines.China was also called the “most active and persistent” cyber-threat to the US government and private sector, while ODNI predicted Beijing “almost certainly has a multifaceted, national-level strategy designed to displace the United States as the world’s most influential AI power by 2030.”Meanwhile, Russia has been rapidly developing a “more modern and survivable nuclear force designed to circumvent US missile defense,” Director of National...