The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced on Thursday a new China-focused unit that will particularly concentrate on its toughest long-term adversary, that is, China.
CIA director William Burns said in a statement that the new China Mission Center (CMC) will address the challenge China poses to all of the American spy agency’s mission areas.
“CMC will further strengthen our collective work on the most important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese government,” Burns said.
Burns’ announcement came after the CIA and FBI have found out dozens of cases of China recruiting US citizens to supply it classified or corporate proprietary information, and using Chinese citizens working in the US as intelligence collectors as well. US intelligence also sees their Chinese rivals making use of their strength in the global electronics market and in hacking to creep into networks of the US.
