Waltz says US will answer China threat with economic and military ‘lethality’

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National security adviser Mike Waltz implied the Trump administration is preventing further spying threats from China by demonstrating military strength.

The Trump administration is adopting an offensive position over the previous Biden administration’s defensive position when it comes to China. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in recent weeks that made sweeping cuts at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America and other state-funded news agencies such as Radio Free Asia that broadcast to authoritarian regimes. This followed the president’s tariffs against China and pressure on TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company.

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