China's Xi Jinping is 'a silent partner' in Putin's 'aggression' in Ukraine, CIA Director Burns warns

[conworldus]

I have been buying a lot of Russian food products lately. They have good stuff.

 

[Apollon]

The USA is doing its best to push apart Russia and China, they really don't want to see them forming an alliance or future block.
This will only backfire on the USA and the west.
Certain European and western countries are shooting themselves in the foot but not buying Russian Gas, Oil or Wheat.
It would be even worse if they tried sanctions against China.
The weak point of the west is the financial system, it's just a matter of time before the dollar collapses and takes the US empire down with it.
Russia should target the dollars supremacy.

Nice theory. But Russia economy is so weak (just 1.4% of world economy), russia couldnt even close down a cookie store in austria.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

China's Xi Jinping is 'a silent partner' in Putin's 'aggression' in Ukraine, CIA Director Burns warns​

'His risk appetite has grown as his grip on Russia has tightened,' Burns said of Putin​

By Brooke Singman | Fox News

CIA Director William Burns on Thursday said Chinese President Xi Jinping is "a silent partner" in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s "aggression" in Ukraine, warning that China poses the "greatest challenge" and "most profound test" that the agency has ever faced.
Burns, speaking at the Georgia Institute of Technology Thursday in his first public speech as CIA director, laid out a "new era" for the agency and an international landscape that is "vastly different" from the inception of the CIA.
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"It’s a more complicated and contested world, featuring the rise of an increasingly adversarial China and a pugnacious and revisionist Russia," Burns said, noting that the agency will "have to reimagine itself to compete successfully in this new age."
Burns pointed to the "immediate threat posed by renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine," and to the "longer term problem posed by China’s ambitious leadership," calling it "the single most important geopolitical challenge" of the 21st century.
"A silent partner in Putin’s aggression, Xi Jinping’s China is our greatest challenge, in many ways the most profound test the CIA has ever faced," Burns warned, calling the People’s Republic of China a "formidable competitor lacking in neither ambition nor capability."

CIA Director William Burns testifies during a House Intelligence Committee hearing about worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington April 15, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
"It seeks to overtake us in literally every domain, from economic strength to military power, and from space to cyberspace," he said, adding that China is "intent" on replacing the United States as "the preeminent power in the Indo-Pacific."
"As an intelligence service, we have never had to deal with an adversary with more reach in more domain," Burns said.
The Biden administration has voiced "deep concerns" about Russia’s "alignment" with China. Intelligence officials said that the Kremlin had turned to Beijing for economic and military aid after its invasion of Ukraine Feb. 24.
Last month, President Biden held a secure video call with Xi for nearly two hours during which he warned of the "consequences" should China "provide material support" to Russia amid its multi-front war on Ukraine.

As for Russia’s war on Ukraine, Burns reflected on his career, having previously served as the U.S. ambassador in Moscow and his experience with Putin.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping I Russian President Vladimir Putin (Li Xueren/Xinhua via Getty Images) | Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
"His risk appetite has grown, as his grip on Russia has tightened," Burns said. "His circle of advisers has narrowed. And in that small circle, it has never been career enhancing to question his judgement or his stubborn, almost mystical belief that his destiny is to restore Russia’s sphere of influence."
Burns said the CIA began gathering intelligence about Putin’s plans for an invasion of Ukraine early last fall.
"In November, President Biden asked me to travel to Russia to convey directly to Putin and several of his closest advisors the depth of our concern about his planning for war and the consequences for Russia of attempting to execute that plan," Burns said, noting he was "troubled" by what he heard.
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"While it did not yet seem that he had made an irreversible decision to invade Ukraine, Putin was defiantly leaning in that direction, apparently convinced that his window was closing for shaping Ukraine’s orientation," Burns said, adding that he "seemed convinced" that winter "offered a favorable landscape."

Burns said Putin, at the time, thought it was "unlikely" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians would "mount effective resistance."
Upon launching his multi-front war in February, Putin was "proven wrong," Burns added.
As for U.S. intelligence amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, Burns said the administration has been "committed to rapid and effective intelligence sharing with our Ukrainian partners throughout the fighting and for months beforehand."
"As allied leaders and counterparts have emphasized directly in my travels to Europe, the credibility of U.S. intelligence helped cement the solidarity of the alliance at President Biden’s direction," Burns said, adding that the U.S. government has also "taken unprecedented steps to declassify intelligence and use it publicly to preempt false narratives and false flag operations, which Putin has used so often in the past."

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. (REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)
"By being open with some of our secrets, we made it harder for Putin to obscure the truth of his unprovoked and vicious aggression," Burns said. "Those decisions can never be taken lightly given the importance of protecting sources and methods, but, in this case, they have made a crucial contribution to a successful whole of government strategy."
Burns said it reflects "the need for new thinking and new tactics in this new and demanding era for intelligence."
"The last chapter in Putin’s war has yet to be written as he grinds away in Ukraine," Burns warned, saying that he has "no doubt about the cruel pain and damage that Putin can continue to inflict on Ukraine or the raw brutality with which Russian force is being applied."
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Burns said the "crimes in Bucha are horrific," but that the "Ukrainian will is unbroken."
"Putin’s Russia has inflicted massive material and reputational damage on itself," Burns said. "American intelligence has been vital throughout and offers valuable lessons for the future of our profession — how to develop good intelligence, use it as the basis for good policy, share it systematically as the basis for good alliances and partnerships, and deploy it openly and creatively to discredit the false narratives on which adversaries so often thrive."

A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP/Felipe Dana)
President Biden, this week, has classified actions by Russian forces in Bucha and throughout Ukraine as "genocide," saying it has become "clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out even the idea of being Ukrainian."
"The evidence is mounting," Biden told reporters.
Biden's comments drew praise Tuesday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called the comments "true words of a true leader."
"Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil," Zelenskyy said on Twitter. "We are grateful for US assistance provided so far and we urgently need more heavy weapons to prevent further Russian atrocities."
Russia on Wednesday said Biden's comments were "unacceptable."

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE: A cemetery worker waits in a truck before colleagues start to load corpses of civilians killed in Bucha before transporting them to a morgue on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)
"We consider this kind of effort to distort the situation unacceptable," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to Reuters.
"This is hardly acceptable from a president of the United States, a country that has committed well-known crimes in recent times," he added.
In Ukraine, Human Rights Watch has documented evidence of summary executions, unlawful violence and threats against civilians and repeated rapes between Feb. 27 and March 14. A report from the organization also implicates Russian soldiers in looting civilian property, including food, clothing and firewood.
The Senate last month approved a resolution to investigate Putin for war crimes, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said U.S. findings will be used to help international efforts to hold the Kremlin accountable.
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Since the onslaught of the war Feb. 24, Russian forces have hit apartment buildings, children’s and maternity hospitals, bread lines and, most recently, a theater sheltering roughly 1,000 men, women and children in the besieged city of Mariupol.

Russian forces have also been accused of using cluster munitions and vacuum bombs, which violate international law when used indiscriminately against civilians.
The International Criminal Court said earlier this month it is opening an investigation into potential war crimes by Putin.
Burns last year announced the formation of the CIA’s China Mission Center to counter Beijing. He also warned then that China poses "the most important geopolitical threat" to the United States in the 21st century.
The CMC addresses the challenges posed by the People’s Republic of China and emphasized last year, and again Thursday, that the CIA’s concern about the threat posed by the People’s Republic of China is "not about the people of China, let alone fellow Americans of Chinese or Asian descent."
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"It is a profound mistake to conflate the two," Burns said Thursday. "At CIA, we will stay sharply focused on the PRC challenge."
Last month, the intelligence community annual threat assessment was released with data through January. It warned that China is increasingly a "near-peer competitor, challenging the United States in multiple arenas —especially economically, militarily and technologically — and is pushing to change global norms and potentially threatening its neighbors."

President Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jingping in a video call March 18, 2022. (White House)
As many have said, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has emboldened China with regard to its ambition to take Taiwan. The intelligence community warned that Beijing is using a coordinated approach to compel neighbors to "acquiesce" to its preferences, "including its territorial and maritime claims and assertions of sovereignty over Taiwan."
"Beijing will press Taiwan to move toward unification and will react to what it views as increased U.S.–Taiwan engagement," the IC states. "We expect that friction will grow as China continues to increase military activity around the island and Taiwan’s leaders resist Beijing’s pressure for progress toward unification."
The IC also assessed that China presents "the broadest, most active, and persistent cyber espionage threat to U.S. Government and private sector networks."
"China’s cyber pursuits and export of related technologies increase the threats of attacks against the U.S. homeland, suppression of U.S. web content that Beijing views as threatening to its control and the expansion of technology-driven authoritarianism globally," the report states.
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Beyond Russia and China, Burns said the CIA is looking at the "revolution in technology," which he said is transforming "the way we live, work, compete and fight."
Burns said technology — like quantum computing and synthetic biology — is "coming at a dizzying speed," while warning that "familiar threats" like terrorism and nuclear proliferation "demand our attention."
But further committing to the mission of the CIA, Burns declared that "politics truly must stop where intelligence work begins."
"In all that we do, we have an obligation to follow the law, which we take very seriously," Burns said. "We only get ourselves in trouble as a nation and make bad policy choices when we forget those basic truths."

China's Xi Jinping is 'a silent partner' in Putin's 'aggression' in Ukraine, CIA Director Burns warns

CIA Director William Burns on Thursday said Chinese President Xi Jinping is “a silent partner” in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “aggression” in Ukraine, warning that China poses the “greatest challenge” and “most profound test” that the agency has ever faced.

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So is India also a silent partner as well?



This obviously wriiten for the ignorant Americans at home.

 

[Apollon]

America domestic situation between liberals and antifa/LGBT/BLM vs whites gun nuts, supremacists etc is boiling over and will reach its peak in 2042 when America becomes majority minority country. China just needs a comfortable seat and some popcorn to watch America tear itself apart in the coming decades. Best case scenario is liberals win and they isolate themselves and worst case is America fracture among racial lines. Either way china wins

Fun fact, Kaiser Wilhelm of the German Empire said same in 1914.

I have been buying a lot of Russian food products lately. They have good stuff.

Would not eat that shit even when im starving. Russia has low standards. Food is contaminated with chemicals and bacteria in many cases.

 

[K_Bin_W]

And still loose!

Very well said, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[MajesticPug]

The Chinese have even less battlefield experience than the Russians. I don’t care how much they’ve invested in weapons.

Experience is a huge component of warfare.

Yet the Americans are damn afraid of the PLA. Just ask MacArthur the Bloat. Oh well, you'd have to use some inter-underworld medium to talk to this folk in Hell.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

The problem is:
The US has threw everything at Russia and they are all not working.

And so the trick is to blame it on countries that do not concurred with their stance and that included Modi.

Does China gives a damn? No.

Not even Modi's India as she surged ahead to buy more oil from Russia.

 

[Beast]

The Chinese have even less battlefield experience than the Russians. I don’t care how much they’ve invested in weapons.

Experience is a huge component of warfare.

LOL.. Absolutely BS, experience in the wrong battle is a hinder than help. Precisely, you mention experience. Didnt Russian fought in Syria for years? What happened to the experience gain?

Well funded, well organized training and well equipped equipment are the key. Not some dubious money wasting experience....

 

[mmr]

So is India also a silent partner as well?



This obviously wriiten for the ignorant Americans at home.

Its what cia head said. Fox news is just publishing what he mentioned to the congress.

Well india is with west when it comes to contain china. Usa will look other way when it comes to Indians. Its all about self interest.

 

[MajesticPug]

No I meant if usa nuke china, china will nuke usa back, which will cause peace in long run. My reply was as serious as this article.

Peace like dead peace as in nuclear winter.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Russia with its Public Debt to GDP at 17.8% is doing OK.

The US, UK and allies are not facing a rising CPI of 7% upward with the high cost of energy.

 

[Beast]

Some people believe if they smear China they will be better accepted by western society. A lot of Chinese do it too, it's a mindset.

Your " alot " is how many? A white talk for Chinese as some expert... LOL..

 

[MajesticPug]

Sounds like the Americans are drumming up a war like they did before the invasions in Vietnam, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, ... Where's my popcorn machine?

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

LOL.. Absolutely BS, experience in the wrong battle is a hinder than help. Precisely, you mention experience. Didnt Russian fought in Syria for years? What happened to the experience gain?

Well funded, well organized training and well equipped equipment are the key. Not some dubious money wasting experience....

Fight a war with China today.

It may jolly well turn out to be US nightmare and I won't bother myself to discuss or speculate about it.

US went into Operation Retreat during the Korean War soon after China despatched their PVA into the war.

Read history on US attack on Fallujah in Iraq in 2004 and compare it to PLA attack on Lang Son, Vietnam.
13,500 Vietnam harden defenders and less than one month later after 2 days of mopping up, in house to house fighting the city has fallened
The Chinese collected the remains of almost 11,000 bodies of Vietnamese and countless shoes.

They stay on for one more PEACEFUL month without any resistance from the Vietnamese soldiers.

Washington Post then said in their editorial "The Chinese beats the HELL out of the Vietnamese. "

Today trolls believe Vietnam won the war.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Let me paste what I wrote in the other thread about the Battle of Fallujah in Iraq in here.

The war in Mariupol reminded us of US attack on Fallujah in Iraq that took place back in 2004 by joint U.S. Army Special Forces advisers, SEAL Sniper Task and UK SAS.

Despite its overwhelming superiority in heavy artilleries bombardment and aerial attacks on basically a flat terrain, US took almost 8 weeks to overcome Saddam's defender, the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion.

An overwhelming 13,350 US UK troops were involved in the attack against 3700 Iraqi soldiers.