China presents top military, cyber threat to United States, US report says

China remains the United States' top military and cyber threat, according to a report by U.S. intelligence agencies published on Tuesday.

China has the ability to hit the U.S. with conventional weapons, compromise U.S. infrastructure through cyber attacks, and target its assets in space, and seeks to displace the U.S. as the top AI power by 2030, the Annual Threat Assessment by the U.S. intelligence community said.

Russia, along with Iran, North Korea and China, seek to challenge the U.S. through deliberate campaigns to gain an advantage, with Moscow's war in Ukraine having afforded it a "wealth of lessons regarding combat against Western weapons and intelligence in a large-scale war," the report said.