{"id":39055,"date":"2025-04-17T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/cia-director-says-china-is-1-priority-poses-biggest-challenge-from-adversary-in-us-history\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:55:55","slug":"cia-director-says-china-is-1-priority-poses-biggest-challenge-from-adversary-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/cia-director-says-china-is-1-priority-poses-biggest-challenge-from-adversary-in-us-history\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA director says China is #1 priority, poses biggest challenge from adversary in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"

CIA Director John Ratcliffe declared in an internal memo that China<\/a> is the top priority for his agency, warning that “no adversary in the history of our Nation has presented a more formidable challenge or a more capable strategic competitor than the Chinese Communist Party.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The internal CIA memo<\/a> directed to the agency\u2019s rank and file was provided to Fox News by a senior CIA official on Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“For CIA to continue successfully defending our Nation, we will build upon our strong foundation and pursue with laser-like focus the near-term priorities for CIA that our President and our country demand. China sits at the very top of that list,” Ratcliffe wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“No adversary in the history of our Nation has presented a more formidable challenge or a more capable strategic competitor than the Chinese Communist Party,” he continued. “It is intent on dominating the world economically, militarily, and technologically, and it is aggressively trying to out-compete America in every corner of the globe.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ratcliffe said the CIA must continue to respond to the threats China poses “with urgency, creativity, and grit.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve emboldened CIA\u2019s leadership team to take on more risks, smartly, and to aggressively seek out short- and long-term opportunities that give the United States the advantage it needs to keep China in our rear-view window. It won\u2019t be easy, but I pledge to lead the charge in helping us do just that,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ratcliffe said, “Technology is another top priority; one that is in many ways intertwined with the threat posed by the CCP.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence<\/a> and quantum computing will define the future of national security and geopolitical power,” he wrote in the memo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Concurrently, our adversaries \u2013 China, Russia, and Iran \u2013 seek to gain footholds in countries in our near-abroad. We must continue to push back against these efforts,” Ratcliffe also said. “To best position CIA in addressing this priority, we are taking a close look at how we can create a unified effort across the range of policy objectives in this region. The American people deserve our best.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CIA Director John Ratcliffe declared in an internal memo that China is the top priority for his agency, warning that “no adversary in the history of our Nation has presented a more formidable challenge or a more capable strategic competitor than the Chinese Communist Party.”\u00a0 The internal CIA memo directed to the agency\u2019s rank and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}