Former CIA station chief warns of China becoming more aggressive to the West

[beijingwalker]

Former CIA station chief warns of China becoming more aggressive to the West
By Julia Musto | Fox News
Published 1 hour ago

The divide between the United States and China will only continue to grow in the coming months and years following the coronavirus pandemic, former CIA station chief and Fox News contributor Daniel Hoffman said Wednesday.

Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with host Brian Kilmeade, Hoffman said that the virus has made China more aggressive and hostile to Western countries because they are trying to spread the narrative that they weren't responsible for concealing the outbreak from their own citizens and the rest of the world — causing great harm worldwide.

"And I think we're seeing an ongoing effort, on their part, to conduct massive espionage against us," he remarked. "We are also seeing them take advantage of the coronavirus. They [have] shipped a lot of drones with the [Da Jiang Innovations] company – which is a Chinese firm – to over 20 states in the United States that conduct surveillance. And, it's an opportunity for China simply to download reporting on our critical infrastructure."

Hoffman told Kilmeade it "remains to be seen" whether or not the Chinese will receive backlash for their part in the pandemic from other countries, but "certainly in our own country we will be questioning whether we want to rely on China for [our] key supply chain."

"We have already had that discussion about Huawei over concerns that China would use 5G technology to spy on us as they do their own citizens," he stated.

"I think that is certainly a concern going forward and it's an opportunity for the United States to lead the way," Hoffman continued. "But, for sure, China is still trying got use their "one belt one road" initiative, debt-trap diplomacy, and mount again massive espionage operations to steal intellectual property and target other countries — particularly the United [States'] defense sector and the national intelligence community."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dan-hoffman-china-and-us-on-a-collision-course

 

[Philosopher]

I am afraid, the west only understands the language of force. A soft approach does not yield anything with them that would be in the interest of China. China should only remember how they were treated by the west when they were weaker as a nation. It's not ancient history, just a few decades back.

 

[k s ahmed]

thats an indication that west will be hostile to china.. its etween the lines of this article. , wesst is the one always aggressive towards the rest of the world. asian side of the world is much cooler and civilised .. albeit not that developed yet but getting there..

 

[beijingwalker]

Seeing itself losing the top dog position in the world to a rising emerging power, the west now is becoming a mad dog, but we have the west by the balls already.

 

[Beidou2020]

As the US empire crumbles, its wickedness will increase exponentially. Look how the Nazis turned to murderous insanity as they were losing. Same will happen with the US. Historically, the US empire has been one of the most barbaric empire of them all. Their entire history is about war.

 

[BHAN85]

China government should down his head as long people are dying in the world due to their negligence and incompetence.

They close very well theirs borders to others chineses provinces as they let their virus spread over the whole world.

Everyday without NATO launching a thousand nukes in Beijing it's a day to be grateful for the Chinese government.

Stop crying and shut your mouth China.

 

[zectech]

US releases bioweapon on Chinese and blames China and China sails ships in the Yellow Sea.

"Aggressive China!"

 

[Pax Ottomana]

This is hilarious. US, of all countries, accusing China of becoming "more aggressive" when the whole world is practically under siege by the American war machine.