Chinese Communist Party Is the ‘Greatest Existential Threat’ to US: Report

‘Xi is now pulling out all the stops to put together a so-called axis of autocratic states,’ an expert says.

Chinese soldiers march outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, before the introduction of the Communist Party of China's Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, on October 25, 2017. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has amassed many enemies within China due to his continued efforts to consolidate personal power, according to a new report.

The success of Xi’s “dictatorial” concentration of authority has likewise relied on his ability to remove his opposition from power, toward making the CCP “the greatest existential threat” to the United States, according to the China Transparency Report, published by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation.