What the CIA will do in the war on China
The CIA has announced a series of changes to the organizational structure with the creation of the "China Mission Center" and the Transnational and Technology Mission Center which will focus on new technologies and global problems. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
CIA Director William Burns said Thursday that the China Mission Center he was setting up stems from the need to address an incontrovertible fact: the greatest threat comes from China.
CHINA LIKE THE USSR
A senior CIA official likened Burns' creation of Chinese unity to the agency's close focus on Russia during the Cold War and its focus on counterterrorism following the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington in 2001. .
THE FIRST TIME IN CIA HISTORY
No high-level units explicitly focused on China had previously been established by the agency, even following the harsh attacks on China by former President Donald Trump.
WHAT WILL BECOME IRAN AND KOREA
Another novelty is that the Iran Mission Center set up by the Trump administration will enter a larger unit of the Middle East, while Korea will enter a broader East Asia-Pacific unit.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cia-cina-centro-missione/ on Fri, 08 Oct 2021 05:34:34 +0000.