US intelligence report risks pushing ties to the edge of a cold war mode

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Top intelligence leaders of the US said on Wednesday that China remained the "most consequential threat" to its national security, in another attempt to hype the "China threat" narrative that has worsened bilateral ties in many ways in the past year. As the narrative increasingly becomes one without a bottom line, experts warned that the US will pay a heavy price for mending ties. 

Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of the panel's annual hearing, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said the Communist Party of China (CPC) "represents both the leading and most consequential threat to US national security and leadership globally, and its intelligence-specific ambitions and capabilities make it for us our most serious and consequential intelligence rival."

The hearing also covered the annual threat assessment report, a major yearly public release by US intelligence agencies on a variety of issues that they regard as "national security challenges." 

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