China could target US homeland if Iran conflict escalates, expert warns ⁠0%

By Taylor Penley⁠0%

4/6/2026, 3:18:12 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Slippery Slope, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 69.8% saturation with 252 hits. Analysis detected 1,067 faulty-reasoning hits from 361 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Unidentified, sophisticated drones flying over a handful of U.S. military bases could be a warning sign from China, Gordon Chang warned Monday, suggesting Beijing could target the American homeland if the U.S. becomes more involved in its conflict with Iran. 
"The important point here is that we have had, last month, over four of our important military bases, foreign drones. 
These drones were large, they were un-hackable, they obviously were not recreational, so some foreign power — probably China, maybe Russia — was operating drones over our critical air force bases," Chang said on "Mornings with Maria." 
"Really, right now, the United States needs to be able to defend its bases in the homeland because those drone flights were a warning to the United States of some sort," he continued. 
Chang suggested the drone activity could be an attempt to send President Donald Trump the message that, if U.S. forces escalate in the region, China could respond by potentially targeting bases on American soil. 
That warning, coupled with a recent suspicious device left near MacDill Air Force Base in Florida — which Chang suggested may have been linked to China — highlights a growing threat, he warned. 
"We've really got to be concerned," he said, later adding, "These are warnings that China intends to move on the U.S. in the American homeland." 
Chang also warned that Beijing’s actions should be viewed in the context of its growing alignment with other U.S. adversaries like Russia and Iran, as tensions continue to spill across multiple global fronts. 
"China is supporting Russia in Ukraine, and China is supporting Russia in other matters as well… So they have a durable partnership, and anything that helps one of them is going to generally help the other, with the exception of the matter that you just raised," he said, referring to the tension between higher oil prices benefiting Russia while raising costs for China. 
"Generally speaking, the United States now faces a very powerful combination, and we shouldn’t be doing anything that fuels that combination," he added. 
Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan contributed to this report. 
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