William Evanina, then-nominee to be director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, testifies during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington on May 15, 2018. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) The Chinese Communist Party’s economic war with the United States has “manifested itself into a terrorism framework,” former head of U.S. counterintelligence William Evanina said at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. He recommended a new economic threat intelligence entity that would share “actionable, real-time threat information” with American private companies to mitigate risks in doing business with China.
“I would offer to this committee that we are in a terrorism event,” he told members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
The CCP threat requires the same level of urgency and resources as the U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the past two decades, he said, adding it is “a slow, methodical, strategic, persistent, and […]
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