CIA chief warns against underestimating Xi's ambitions toward Taiwan

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine had fuelled concerns in the West of China possibly making a similar move on Taiwan. Read more at straitstimes.com.

and their economic links have boomed as Russia’s connections with the West have shriveled.

China has refrained from condemning Russia’s operation against Ukraine, but it has been careful not to provide the sort of direct material support which could provoke Western sanctions like those imposed on Moscow. As Mr Burns spoke, news came from US officials that a suspected Chinese spy balloon had been flying over the United States for a few days, and that senior US officials had advised President Joe Biden against shooting it down for fear the debris could pose a safety threat.

“Competition with China is unique in its scale, and that it really, you know, unfolds over just about every domain, not just military, and ideological, but economic, technological, everything from cyberspace, to space itself as well. It’s a global competition in ways that could be even more intense than competition with the Soviets was,” he said.

 

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