The Next US President Needs to Confront Threats Posed by ‘Axis of Evil,’ Says House Intelligence Chair

The incoming administration will need to “step up to the plate” in addressing threats posed by U.S. adversaries, regardless of who wins the presidential election, according to Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio).
The Ohio Republican said, “China obviously is the most significant threat” that the United States faces, adding that Russia, Iran, and North Korea—which he grouped as an emerging “axis of evil”—are the “most immediate threat” to the United States.
The next administration needs to understand that the increasing defense cooperation between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea “is a direct threat” to the United States and the West, Turner said.
“These are not small territorial skirmishes. They’re not regional conflicts. This is a much broader conflict. And we have Vladimir Putin and President Xi standing together acknowledging so,” he added.
That should be followed by turning attention to the U.S. defense industrial base, Turner said, which “is not up to being a deterrence to produce what we need to be able to respond.”
“I don’t think that the new administration either will or should do that,” Turner said.
The CCP sees Taiwan as a renegade province and wants to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
Currently, Washington and Taipei are not formal diplomatic partners, but the United States has been Taiwan’s biggest arms supplier for its self-defense.