President Donald Trump singled out China this past week for what he said was intent to interfere in upcoming midterm elections. In separate speeches, the national intelligence director and the CIA director also emphasized the shift in strategy toward China and Russia.
At least one CIA official publicly concurred, saying that China's challenges to the United States on multiple fronts mirrors in some ways the 1945-1990 Cold War with the Soviet bloc.
"What they're waging against us is fundamentally a cold war. A cold war not like we saw during the Cold War, but a cold war by definition. A country that exploits all avenues of power, licit and illicit, public and private, economic, military, to undermine the standing of your rival relative to your own standing, without resorting to conflict," said Michael Collins, the CIA's deputy assistant director of its East Asia and Pacific Mission Center.
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