A leading CIA official warned that China might be planning to declare “cold war” on the United States and that this threat could be the…
A leading CIA official warned that China might be planning to declare “cold war” on the United States and that this threat could be the “most serious” that the country has to deal with at the present.
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Saturday, CIA East Asia Mission Center deputy assistant director Michael Collins clarified that China does not exactly want to declare war against the United States, according to the Associated Press. However, he added that President Xi Jinping’s communist government has different ways to “undermine” the U. S. in a subtle, quieter manner that equates to a different type of cold war than the original one between the U. S. and the former Soviet Union.
“I would argue… that what they’re waging against us is fundamentally a cold war — a cold war not like we saw during THE Cold War (between the U. S. and the Soviet Union) but a cold war by definition,” said Collins.
In a separate report, Newsweek further quoted Collins, who offered his description of typical nations that declare cold wars on other countries, and warned that China wants every other country in the world to take its side when it comes to its interests in the U. S.
“A country that exploits all avenues of power licit and illicit, public and private, economic and military, to undermine the standing of your rival relative to your own standing without resorting to conflict.
