CIA rebuilding spy networks in China a decade after losing agents, director William Burns reveals
But he said Chinese President Xi Jinping is determined to take control of the island at some point in the future, while adding that the Chinese leader likely has not decided whether to try to seize Taiwan by force.
Russian military shortcomings in Ukraine also have affected Chinese leaders’ thinking on an invasion of Taiwan, he said. “I think what it means is that today, President Xi and the PLA, the People’s Liberation Army leadership, have doubts about whether they could pull off a successful, full-scale invasion of Taiwan at an acceptable cost to them,” he said.
On the recent hacking of U.S. government email accounts announced by Microsoft, Mr. Burns said the U.S. government first detected the Chinese hacking and alerted the software company. Regarding the agent losses a decade ago, U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence officials said the arrests of the spy network were carried out by the Ministry of State Security, the primary intelligence and counterespionage service in
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