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Newspaper quoted Wall Street Journal Current and former American officials said that the CIA is still struggling to rebuild its capabilities in the field of human espionage in China, which is the agency’s main intelligence goal.
The newspaper said in a report that spy-hunters in Beijing blinded US efforts in China a decade ago, when Chinese spy-hunters systematically arrested a network of Chinese agents working for the CIA.
This has created gaps that leave the United States with limited understanding of the secret deliberations between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his inner circle on key security issues such as Taiwan and other topics.
The newspaper quoted a former senior American intelligence official, who was recently privy to secret intelligence reports, as saying, “We have no real view of the leadership’s plans and intentions in China at all.”
The Wall Street Journal also quoted the director of the CIA, William Burns China remains at the top of the CIA’s mission list, stressing, “We treat China as a global priority, and we are working to double the budget resources allocated to the China mission over the past three years and establish a China mission center as the CIA’s only country mission center to coordinate the agency’s full efforts on… This issue”.
“We remain intensely engaged in the long-term strategic challenge posed by China even as we balance multiple priorities, including ongoing conflicts,” Burns added.
The Wall Street Journal quoted American officials as saying that the United States’ knowledge of the Chinese President’s plans comes mostly from inference and analysis of his repeated public statements, and that multiple CIA reports have predicted that the current Chinese President will be a different type of Chinese leader, more powerful, more nationalistic, and more focused on security. .
The White House, during the era of US President Barack Obama, had ignored intelligence analyses, and hoped that as China grew economically, it would liberate and join the global system led by the United States.
The newspaper also quoted American officials as saying that the United States has redirected some intelligence resources to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent weeks.
