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Sen. Mark Warner, currently cmte vice chair, soon to be chair: "Echoing what the chmn [Sen. Rubio] has said, perhaps the greatest challenge facing you as the DNI will be a rising China that is committed to surpassing & eclipsing the US militarily, economically & technologically" https://twitter.com/tanvi_madan/status/1351551103104667648
2/ DNI Nominee Avril Haines: "we should provide the necessary intelligence to support long-term bipartisan efforts to outcompete China, gaining & sharing insight into China's intentions & capabilities..."
3/ DNI Nominee Avril Haines: "...while also supporting more immediate efforts to counter Beijing's unfair, illegal, aggressive & coercive actions as well as its human rights violations whenever we can"
4/ DNI nominee Haines in response to Rubio question re PRC outreach to sub-national officials to influence them:
"obviously the counter-intel challenge w/ China is a very important one, a priority & sthg I will hv to focus on" [but notes she hasn't had an in-depth briefing yet]
"obviously the counter-intel challenge w/ China is a very important one, a priority & sthg I will hv to focus on" [but notes she hasn't had an in-depth briefing yet]
5/ Sen. Warner: "for a no. of decades we had a bipartisan consensus on China -- that the more they came into the world order, the closer they would move to some level of international norms.
I'll be the first to acknowledge I was part of that consensus & I think I was wrong"
I'll be the first to acknowledge I was part of that consensus & I think I was wrong"
6/ Sen. Warner says it is important to be "clear-eyed" about China and asks,
"Is China under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party an adversary of the United States?"
"Is China under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party an adversary of the United States?"
7/ DNI nominee Haines's answer to Sen. Warner question: "Is China under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party an adversary of the United States?"
8/ Sen. Susan Collins: "China is clearly a key geopol adversary & poses a threat to our interests in terms of the theft of IP & also potential spying thru its telecom cos. Do u hv any concerns abt how the Obama admin approached China when u served in ur capacity in that admin?"
