View this email in your browser Wednesday April 3, 2019 Newsletter Content  FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN  www.thecipherbrief.com Coming soon:  The Cipher Brief’s Daily Newsletter will be expanding to bring you more intel from around the world.  Feel like you’re stuck in a DC echo chamber and missing out on the stories that are helping to shape our world?  Watch for the addition of our Open Source Collection content in this newsletter later this month. Are the U.S. and China Still Destined for War? A lot has happened since China expert and Harvard Professor Graham Allison’s best-selling book on China, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap was published in 2017. If one needed modern-day evidence of the conflict between ruling and rising powers, they could have found it in January’s worldwide threat report, delivered to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence by DNI Dan Coats.     Coats and other senior leaders of the IC made clear that China is - hands down - the largest national security threat to the United States.   The Cipher Brieftalked with Allison, who returned from China a few months ago, where he had meetings with Chinese officials about the current state of affairs, the U.S.-China trajectory and whether the two countries are any closer to the destined war Allison referred to in his book.   Read The Cipher Brief’s candid conversation with Graham Allison here… On the go? Listen to the State Secrets Podcast with Graham Allison here.