China's communist leaders view the United States as their main enemy and are working in Asia and around the world to undermine U.S. alliances

China's communist leaders view the United States as their main enemy and are working in Asia and around the world to undermine U.S. alliances

Bill Gertz quotes a former Chinese diplomat as saying. (Read also Gertz's Chinese Dragon Awakens, in two parts.)

Chen Yonglin, until recently a senior political officer at the Chinese Consulate in Sydney, Australia, said in an interview that China also is engaged in large-scale intelligence-gathering activities in the United States that, in the past, netted large amounts of confidential U.S. government documents from agents.

…Mr. Chen said the danger of a war over Taiwan is growing

echoing what I wrote four years ago.

"That is possible as Chinese society is getting more unstable," he said. "Once any serious civil disobedience occurs, the government may call for a war across the Taiwan Strait to gather [political] strength from people."