
Ex-CIA & MI6 Chiefs on China Threat
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What Do You Think About China and Russia?
CIA and NSA were focused on Al-Qaeda for the first 10 years of the new millennium. After 9/11, MI6's Russia desk was a backwater until 2009 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. Richard Barrett: The decision to focus so heavily on terrorism really was driven by political considerations. But at the same time, you had these much more profound, longer-term organized threats from China in particular.
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