Evening Edition: CIA Balances Counterterrorism With Emerging Threats From China And Russia

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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For two decades now the United States' intelligence community has had a large focus on counterterrorism operation all around the world but emerging national security threats regarding China and Russia could be changing that. In October, CIA Director William Burns announced the formation of the China Mission Center which would focus on threats coming from Beijing. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks to Dan Hoffman, Former CIA Chief of Station and Fox News Contributor, who says the CIA is always assessing multiple kinds of threats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.7	Friday, December 17th, 2021. I'm Trey Yingst. The CIA is continuing a mission to fight terrorism
0:30.6	amid other emerging threats from countries like Russia and China.
0:34.4	We were always ruthlessly focused on China and Russia and Iran and other priorities.
0:39.4	We have to be careful to draw a distinction between policy shifts and then the intelligence community.
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0:46.6	Evening Edition.
0:48.4	For decades, the CIA focused on fighting terrorism around the world.
0:56.0	There's now a consensus among the American military and intelligence agencies
1:00.0	that countries like Russia and China pose an equal and in some cases greater threat to American efforts abroad.
1:06.2	We saw this week Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold a virtual meeting
1:12.0	to discuss various issues including NATO posture regarding Ukraine.
1:16.0	Analysts worried the two leaders could launch operations against Ukraine and Taiwan simultaneously
1:21.6	creating a complex scenario for the Biden administration to contend with.
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