Michael Collins, deputy assistant CIA director and head of the agency's East Asia Mission Center, said during a security conference that classified assessments outline the agency's record on China but that China is expanding its global ambitions.
Asked if the CIA harbored a benign view of China that resulted in failures to accurately assess China, Collins said the matter is secret.
The journal Foreign Affairs recently published a debate titled "Did America get China wrong?" based on an article by former diplomats Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner who called for new policies toward China based on the failure of decades of U.S. engagement policies to mitigate the China threat.
During successive administrations, official U.S. government policies toward China have sought to play down the danger from China, insisting China not be viewed as a threat but as a state to be engaged through trade and diplomacy.
Today, contrary to those assessments contained in several annual China military power reports to Congress, China is now capable of destroying most strategic U.S. satellites and crippling key elements of U.S. critical infrastructure through cyber attacks.
Collins, in unusually blunt comments, said China is waging a new Cold War against the United States and stated that the threat from China comes from the Communist Party-ruled system.
Collins said it is important to distinguish between China as a country and the Communist Party of China that has ruled since 1949 often with disastrous results, including the estimated deaths of some 60 million Chinese through economic mismanagement and an effort to turn China into an ideal communist state.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-benign-china-policy-ending/
Asked if the CIA harbored a benign view of China that resulted in failures to accurately assess China, Collins said the matter is secret.
The journal Foreign Affairs recently published a debate titled "Did America get China wrong?" based on an article by former diplomats Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner who called for new policies toward China based on the failure of decades of U.S. engagement policies to mitigate the China threat.
During successive administrations, official U.S. government policies toward China have sought to play down the danger from China, insisting China not be viewed as a threat but as a state to be engaged through trade and diplomacy.
Today, contrary to those assessments contained in several annual China military power reports to Congress, China is now capable of destroying most strategic U.S. satellites and crippling key elements of U.S. critical infrastructure through cyber attacks.
Collins, in unusually blunt comments, said China is waging a new Cold War against the United States and stated that the threat from China comes from the Communist Party-ruled system.
Collins said it is important to distinguish between China as a country and the Communist Party of China that has ruled since 1949 often with disastrous results, including the estimated deaths of some 60 million Chinese through economic mismanagement and an effort to turn China into an ideal communist state.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-benign-china-policy-ending/
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