In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, (front row L-R) Russian President Vladimir Putin walks alongside Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko before a military parade marking the end of World War II, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3, 2025. Sergey Bobylev/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
While the Office of the Director of National Intelligence highlighted China in 2025 as the actor that most “stands out” as a threat to the United States, the 2026 threat assessment draws more attention to how a cluster of adversarial nations is propping each other up.
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