The CIA has created a new office focused on China, in a sign of the Biden administration’s growing efforts to counter what the US intelligence agency’s chief described as its “increasingly adversarial” government.
Announcing the expansion on Thursday, CIA director Bill Burns said the spy agency would be at “the forefront” of “facing our toughest geopolitical test in a new era of great power rivalry”.
“[The China mission centre] will further strengthen our collective work on the most important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese government,” Burns added.
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