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The CIA’s China Capabilities

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What Was It Like, Dennis?

In the early 1980s, Dennis Kogan was doing Chinese ground forces. He says China's army wasn't anything to be commended at that time. But years later, all of a sudden, the Chinese military was of great interest, he says. The CIA and others are trying to meet this new level of demand for information on China, but they're not going to have built up the capabilities fast enough in the past four or five years if there is a crisis with Taiwan.

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