In fact, Americans face many new threats from China and Russia. With an operation by a group that the U.S. government labeled Salt Typhoon, China has compromised U.S. telecommunications networks and can now listen to calls or read text messages by any American it chooses. If you feel like your communications might be of interest to the Chinese Communist Party, you should be using only encrypted apps for messaging and calls. In another operation—labeled Volt Typhoon—China has penetrated U.S. infrastructure, including water-supply plans, electricity grids, and transportation, with a view to conducting destructive cyberattacks on the United States in the event of a war between the two countries. Meanwhile, according to the U.S. Intelligence Community's 2025 threat assessment, Russia "is developing a new satellite meant to carry a nuclear weapon as an antisatellite capability," which, if detonated, "could cause devastating consequences for the United States, the global economy, and the world in general."
None of these direct threats to the American homeland are even mentioned in Trump's NSS. The strategy therefore does not explain what the government, Congress, and the private sector should do to fix these vulnerabilities...
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