Threats to U.S. Vital Interests

This is part of a speed up the development of unmanned, intel- broader pattern of destabilization and coercive ligence combat capabilities, and promote the PRC behavior that stretches across the East development and application of the network China Sea, the South China Sea, and along the information system.”4 Line of Actual Control [with India]. [...] In 2020, the wan under the authority of Beijing—by force if nec- Department of Justice charged several PLA officers essary—is also a threat both to a major American with one of the largest breaches in history: stealing security partner and to the American interest in the credit ratings and records of 147 million people peace and stability in the Western Pacific. [...] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s A heritage.org August 2022 visit as a pretext to increase the quantity and provocativeness of aerial incur- sions around Taiwan, with a historic record of 446 aircraft entering Taiwan’s ADIZ and more of the House Select Committee on the Strategic than 300 of those 446 aircraft crossing the me- Competition Between the United States and the dian line of the Taiwan Strait. [...] in just the first five months of 2023.80 China first In the East China Sea, China has intensified deployed a naval unit (as opposed to the CCG) with- its efforts to assert claims of sovereignty over the in the contiguous zone of the Senkakus between 12 Senkaku Islands of Japan. [...] These in- the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and now terests include an economic interest in the free flow Russia’s war against Ukraine, have emphasized the of commerce and the military use of the commons growing role of airpower and missiles in conducting to safeguard America’s own security and contribute “non-contact, non-linear, non-symmetrical” war- to the security of its allies and p.