WASHINGTON: After more than two decades of singleminded focus on terrorism, the CIA, the spy arm of the United States, spinning on what has emerged as a greater geo-political threat to Primacy America: China.
The most multilevel spy agency in the world on Thursday announced that he built a Chinese mission center to focus on countries believed by US analysts would be a bigger challenge than the former Soviet Union, given the large population and economic influence.
The new center “will further strengthen our collective work on the most important geopolitical threats that we face in the 21st century, the increasingly hostile Chinese government,” CIA Director William Burns, said in a background briefing statement that was not named by US officials What they describe efforts in all agents to improve personnel and resources for the new mission center, including analysts, language experts, technology, and other specialists.
The CIA’s decision to go public with the new mission center itself is an indication of what scale will be difficult to hide the project, unmatched since the death of the former USSR when the sovietologist ruled perched on Langley.
Although the CIA then maintains a wide tab in Russian USSR Legate, Iran, North Korea, including countries, a broader terrorism problem appears as its main focus.
Sinologists will now replace the Sovietologists and Islamic experts in the CIA scheme, although officials say terrorism, North Korea, Iran and Russia will continue to be a priority.
They argue that the CIA will continue the mission of counterterrorism, but China, will be a single priority, which is detrimental to the mission center that will attract expertise from all over the world and throughout the world.
One indication of a changing emphasis comes from disclosure that Iran and Korea will be absorbed in the centers of each mission in East Asia and East Asia.
The CIA also announced another new central establishment that will focus on emerging and transnational threats such as disturbing new technology, climate change, and global health, all of which also involve China, but will also be a broader new focus area for.
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Although, Washington experts and analysts have described China as a threat that arises against American global domination for more than a decade now, US withdrawal of war in the Middle East and Afghanistan seems to have accelerated focus on China, especially because Beijing has become more assertive in several Last year and have taken the outer role in the Indo-Pacific region and so on.
The CIA increase from the Chinese threat came even when Washington tried to make Beijing involved despite the recent tension, in the same way involving Moscow for decades regardless of the cold war.
Earlier this week the US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and China Top Yang Jiechi had a six-hour meeting in Zurich where both parties decided their respective Biden President and President XI Jinping would hold a virtual Summit before the end of the year.