H.R. McMaster, who served as Trump’s national security advisor, described China as the biggest national security threat facing the United States.
President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor said Monday that the winner of the presidential election next month will need to elicit the help of the international community in order to rein in a more ambitious and aggressive China. Retired Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served as Trump’s second national security advisor, described China as the biggest national security threat facing the United States. „I think whoever gets sworn in on Jan.20 has to ramp up international coordination and cooperation,“ McMaster said in an interview on CNBC’s „Closing Bell.“ „Since the 1990s, China has increased their military spending 800%. It’s the largest peacetime military buildup in history,“ he said, adding that the Chinese government has also „been much more aggressive at exporting its authoritarian mercantilist model abroad.
