Washington: The world has seen the strict actions taken during the administration of Donald Trump towards China and due to this, China has had to face many restrictions. Now, the administration of Joe Biden, the 46th President of America could also increase the difficulties of China.
Joe Biden has named Avril Haines as spy chief who has made it clear that she supports an “aggressive stance” to deal with the challenges that the country is now facing from China.
During her confirmation hearing for the post of Director of National Intelligence, Haines said that America’s approach to China has to evolve and essentially meet the reality of the particularly assertive and aggressive China that is being experienced now.
Avril said, “China is a challenge to our security, to our prosperity, to our values across a range of issues, and I do support an aggressive stance, in a sense, to deal with the challenge that we’re facing. So I think that’s the place that we are now, and one that is more assertive than where we had been in the Obama/Biden administration. And if I’m confirmed, I think frankly the intelligence community can do a lot to help in that respect,” she said.
Haines said China is adversarial and an adversary on some issues like espionage and we will prevent it from taking any illegal action. And in other issues, we try to cooperate with them whether in the context of climate change or other things.”
In response to a question, Avril said, “Providing, keeping our focus, putting our resources and effort in making sure that we understand the intentions and capabilities of China, but also that we are actually recognising and holding them to account in effect by identifying where they are taking actions that are inconsistent with our interests will be part of what I hope to focus on.”
US President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Haines, who had served as White House Deputy National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, as his next spymaster.