China poses the single biggest geopolitical test for the US in the 21st century, CIA Director William Burns has said, stressing that this threat is more serious than those from Russia during the Cold War.
Burns made the remarks to members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence during a Congressional hearing on worldwide threats on Thursday.
“I think China poses the single biggest geopolitical test for the United States as far out into the 21st century as I can see,” Burns said.
“What distinguishes that challenge from an increasingly adversarial Chinese Communist Party from, for example, the challenge we faced with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, is that this challenge unfolds across a whole range of areas from military to ideological in terms of our values, economic and especially at its core competition and technology as well,” Burns said.
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April 16, 2021 10:31 IST
William Burns made the remarks to members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence during a Congressional hearing on worldwide threats on Thursday.
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William Burns made the remarks to members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence during a Congressional hearing on worldwide threats on Thursday. China poses the single biggest geopolitical test for the United States in the 21st century, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns has said, stressing that this threat is more serious than those from Russia during the Cold War.
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April 12, 2021 Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) creation of the “Closer to Zero campaign, which will reduce the levels of toxic heavy metals in baby foods, and which follows the House Oversight Committee investigation led by Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi into the level of heavy metals in top baby food brands:
“As House Speaker, I salute the Biden Administration’s new initiative to address the serious, long-neglected crisis of toxic metals in our children and babies’ food. This important step forward for the health and safety of our children is possible thanks to the tireless oversight efforts of House Democrats, led by Committee on Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney and Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Chair Raja Krishnamoorthi.
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On April 7th, 2021, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement: In 2019, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to declare April 5th, the International Day of Conscience in an effort to promote the culture of peace with love and conscience. The resolution specifically states that all nations must be
Conscious of the need for the creation of conditions of stability and well-being and peaceful and friendly relations based on respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.
But today, one cannot escape the feeling that America s democratic institutions are facing unprecedented threats. This feeling became a reality when U.S. Capitol Police frantically evacuated me from my office after a bomb was discovered less than 200 feet from my window on January 6th. The attack on our Capitol on January 6th, and the one causing yet another loss of life last week, have caused