CIA Creating New ‘Mission Center’ Focusing on China Threats

William Burns, then-nominee for Central Intelligence Agency director, testifies during his Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on Feb. 24, 2021. Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images

The Central Intelligence Agency says that it’s creating a top-level working group aimed at China, calling the regime in Beijing “the most important geopolitical threat” America faces today.

The China Mission Center aims to address “the global challenge posed by the People’s Republic of China,” CIA Director William Burns said on Oct. 7, stating that such a challenge “cuts across all of the Agency’s mission areas.”