The 2026 Annual Threats Assessment has concluded that China is unlikely to invade Taiwan next year, generously crediting Trump's peace deals. This is the same intelligence community that once insisted the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation and that COVID had nothing to do with a lab in Wuhan. Now they're geopolitical astrologers reading omens in the Iran war's tea leaves. How reassuring. Nothing says institutional competence like rewriting yesterday's doomsday forecast into today's victory lap.
Intelligence Report: China Unlikely to Invade Taiwan Next Year
CNN credits Trump's peace deals for Beijing's sudden restraint. The same experts who spent years calling him a Russian asset.
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