Jammu, June 27 -- US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien on Friday launched the Trump administration's sharpest attack on Chinese government, comparing President Xi Jinping to Russia's brutal dictator Joseph Stalin whose policies killed millions, and warning that the Chinese Communist Party was seeking leverage over individual Americans through propaganda and collection of their "most intimate data" via big Chinese companies that made huge investments and had even pressured Hollywood into self-censorship.

Robert O'Brien, who described the foreign policy calculations of consecutive US governments towards Beijing as the US' "biggest miscalculation" since the 1930s, said China's efforts to control the mind of people residing beyond its...