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The director of the FBI says the whole of Chinese society is a threat to the US ‐ and Americans must step up as a society to defend themselves
[Business Insider] FBI director Christopher Wray reiterated a commonly held view on Tuesday that China is seeking to become a global superpower through unconventional means ‐ but framed the threat China poses to the US as not just a governmental one, but as a societal one, too.Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other US intelligence agencies, Wray told Senators that China is using a host of methods to undermine American military, economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe that rely on more than just China's state institutions. "One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole of government threat, but a whole of society threat on their end," Wray said, "and I think it's going to take a whole-of-society response by us." Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats expressed a similar sentiment after Sen. Marco Rubio asked him about China's plans to overtake the US as the world's supreme world power. "There is no question that what you have just articulated is what's happening with China," Coats said. "They're doing it in a very smart way; they're doing it in a very effective way; they are looking beyond their own region." Coats said multiple agencies are conducting "intensive studies" to understand the ways China is looking to carry out its global agenda. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-14 |
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