in the history of china. he says now his goal is to be more quickly elevating his military in this next term. that as the generally quiet chinese foreign minister now slamming the united states. if the u.s. does not hit the brake, continues to speed on the wrong path no, amount of guardrails can prevent derailing and there will be conflict and confrontation. martha: our nation s top intelligence officials laying out today the escalating china threat. watch this. we assess that during the course of xi s third term that they will attempt to press taiwan on unification, undercut u.s. influence which they perceive as a threat, drive wedges between washington and its allies and partners and promote china s authoritarian system. martha: with that we bring in general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war. good to have you with us. thanks for being here. feels like between these hearings and the china select committee in the house we re hearing a lot more