As the Pentagon is focusing on confronting China, US spy agencies are following suit. According to a report from Bloomberg, the CIA is weighing options to create a new spy center that would be exclusively focused on China.
China has long been under the umbrella of the CIA’s “Mission Center for East Asia and Pacific.” Sources told Bloomberg that the agency wants to create a new “Mission Center for China” that would make it easier for the CIA to focus attention on Beijing and secure funding for such activities.
The option is being considered as part of the agency’s broader review of its capabilities against China that was ordered by CIA Director William Burns. “As Director Burns has said, China is one of his priorities, and the CIA is in the process of determining how best to position ourselves to reflect the significance of this priority,” the CIA said in a statement to Bloomberg.
During his Senate confirmation hearing, like most Biden cabinet picks, Burns identified China as the top “adversary” facing Washington. “Adversarial, predatory Chinese leadership poses our biggest geopolitical test,” Burns told the Senate Intelligence Committee in February. He described China as a “formidable, authoritarian adversary.”
In a recent interview with NPR, Burns suggested the CIA was considering deploying “China specialists” around the world, as the agency did during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
“During the Cold War, both at the State Department and at CIA, we rightly forward-deployed Soviet specialists to help make sure that we could compete effectively. I think the same is true and this is one of the things that I’m exploring right now, to forward-deploy China specialists,” he said.
An entire new cadre of high priced spies… Exactly what broke the bank of the old Soviet Union.
We’re already broke and a dyeing empire the Amerikan govt. just doesn’t know it.
This mission will be collapsed before it starts…!
They already have 3 or 4 of them, so what good is another one going to be? They are obsessed with hatred of Russia now which blinds them, and they will still be blind with another listening post.
Its somewhere to park all the Afghanistan desk warriors facing potential downsizing.
The point of covert action is that it’s deniable, less so if you talk about your expansive plans in public hearings and to news outlets. China knows we are a formidable authoritarian adversary also and will likely know about many of the aggressive actions the US will take against them. That will lead to escalation, and the US remains dependent on China in various ways.
The neocon Europe First Deep Statists are a powerful domestic faction; they don’t care what happens to the U.S. so long as Europe’s oligarchs comes out on top in a fight between the U.S. and China.
A fight between the U.S. and Russia, would put Europe in the middle. A fight between the U.S. and China, leaves Europe unscathed.
Except the recent china Russia joint military exercises suggest fighting one may mean fighting both.
Joint military exercises at sea are the important factor for deterring the U.S..
Russia may not want to get dragged into the Chinese civil war finishing Taiwan.
Oh great! More of my tax money going toward crapola.
Hmph. Yesterday it was American patriots.
However, by yin-yang thinking the external enemy would be China, which threatens the eternal external expansion of imperialism, while the internal enemy is whomever threatens the eternal expansion of bureaucratic kingdoms.
If there wasn’t already a China task group, the security complex failed, and, if they need a newer bigger one, they failed bigger.
Failure is the new success where it generates desk jobs for patronage.
We don’t have to go very far to find an example of what’s wrong with our super dangerous China policy, we just have to look in the mirror and remember Cuba. We were ready to risk nuclear Holocaust to keep the Soviets from supplying weapons to Cuba. Now what makes us think China will not risk it all to keep us from supplying Taiwan with even more deadly weapons then the Soviets were supplying Cuba with. There is no doubt we have some mighty short sighted hombres in our government, they are just out right suicidal or just plain sadistic, we have to get rid of the monsters in our government befor it’s to late.
They need a war in Asia; re-igniting the Chinese Civil War seems like a good bet.