While there are challenging areas where interests diverge, President Trump's diplomatic engagements with President Xi have enabled progress on areas where mutual interests align. The IC assesses that China continues to rapidly modernize its military forces across all domains and in pursuit of its goal to achieve world class status by mid century. This includes building a force with the aim of being capable of deterring U.S. and allied forces in the region and to achieve their stated objective of having the capability to seize Taiwan by force if necessary. (13:11–13:21)
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Asserts that China is modernizing its military to achieve global dominance by mid-century.
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