US security drive focuses on ChinaBy Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporterThe US has introduced an initiative to identify possible threats posed by China and develop plans to defend against them, US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said. Mayorkas on Friday announced the “90-day department-wide sprint” while delivering his first “state of homeland security address” at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank. The initiative is to “assess how the threats posed by the PRC [People’s Republic of China] will evolve and how we can be best positioned to guard against future manifestations of this threat,” he said. US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas gives a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on Friday. Photo: Screenshot from a livestreamWhile listing the security issues the US is confronting, he singled out threats posed by China as among the most serious and related to all of the department’s missions.
