William Evanina, chief of the counterintelligence branch at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said Wednesday that Chinese agents have dramatically ramped up their efforts to influence presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming team. Evanina’s remarks came at a virtual discussion at the Aspen Institute.
According to the BBC, Evanina said China had been attempting to meddle in the U.S. efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine as well as the recent American elections.
Earlier DNI had issued a statement concluding that the Intelligence Community (IC) assessed that China favored a Joe Biden win, and a Trump re-election loss. The DNI statement from August noted China’s efforts began long before the election and involved undermining President Trump:
We assess that China prefers that President Trump — whom Beijing sees as unpredictable — does not win reelection. China has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment in the United States, pressure political figures it views as opposed to China’s interests, and deflect and counter criticism of China. Although China will continue to weigh the risks and benefits of aggressive action, its public rhetoric over the past few months has grown increasingly critical of the current Administration’s COVID-19 response, closure of China’s Houston Consulate, and actions on other issues.
But now, on Wednesday, Evanina added that China’s current unprecedented effort toward the Biden Team was an influence campaign “on steroids.”
He continued, according to BBC: “We’ve also seen an uptick, which was planned and we predicted, that China would now re-vector their influence campaigns to the new [Biden] administration.” Evanina went further, saying:
And when I say that, that malign foreign influence, that diplomatic influence plus, or on steroids, we’re starting to see that play across the country to not only the folks starting in the new administration, but those who are around those folks in the new administration.
Meanwhile, this massive Chinese influence operation toward Team Biden ties into the many questions surrounding Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his business associates’ connections to the communist Chinese regime which I have detailed previously.
And as I recently wrote, this Chinese influence effort also connects to the national security concerns about several of Biden’s cabinet picks’ links to WestExec Advisors, a pro-China consulting firm co-founded by Biden’s Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken, and one of Biden’s possible picks for Secretary of Defense — Michèle Flournoy.
Biden’s pick for DNI Director — Avril Haines was also a principal at WestExec. Suspiciously, that company scrubbed its website in August (just as Biden became the Democrat nominee for president) of all information detailing its successful efforts connecting Chinese entities to Pentagon-related research in the United States.
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Joe Biden’s head is so far up the Chinese you know what that he can’t see the light of day. There’s no surprise in these headlines. Sleepy Joe and his son Cocaine Hunter have been bought and sold by the CCP. Welcome to the beginning of the end people!
Can not really TOP that stmt. It is sooo ” RIGHT in the MONEY!”….Why didn’t the American public take note of that major point? OR…Better yet, why didnt the Republicans use that in ads against him? Shhhhh
Or why did the American media (D) tell the American public the truth. I think we all know the answer to that.
They all want to get rite of Trump!!!
joe and hunter make much money now, China information will increase
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, FOLLOW THE MONEY , And you’ll see WHO’S paying and WHO’S getting paid !!!
Fallow the down fall of America, under Biden Agenda. Democracy goes to socialism, then communism and finally Marxism.
Again..all we can do now..is exercise and become more limber. ..so we can bend over. And ” kiss our butts GOOD-BYE !! 🙃🥵👋👋👀👅🙋🙋♀️🇺🇲
Man West VA agrees with you
I couldn’t have said better it better if I tried.. Biden is a traitor just like Obama was and Obama’s entire administration was so corrupt they should all be in jail.
Get ready for Obama admin part 2. Biden can’t think for himself and if he could we would have emigrants running the US…China emigrants w/o citizenship.
civil war on the horizon wakeup america all 79 million of us . lock and load January 6th washington d. c. and again January 20th. stay tuned
The problem is the msm aka The State Press won’t let anything negative about the left get reported. We have the Chinese Communist Propaganda Press here in the US now and have had it since 2016.
Get smart peep’s, being Naive America is a clear sign of the deplorables..read, research, fact check & pray!!!!
Anyone with an ounce of sense knows the bidens are owned by CHINA, as well as other countries that give money to the Bidens.
The CCP has already paid for special treatment. They are now collecting their favors owed.
When will congress pass Chinese as the USA national language ?
as soon as dementia Joe China gets into the white house. Impeachment of Biden should already start NOW
Agreed 200%! Not sure the Republicans can play that dirty, though. We don’t embody scum the likes of Shitf, Nadless, Piglosey, et al. It takes a special kind of derangement to do what these un-Americans did last spring.
they going to start January 21st at impeaching him then for treason then bribery then for being the biggest liar in the world then conflict of interest then spying and on and on every week. they might as well get ready . they are going to drive him crazier than he is and that will be a very lot. this is no joke . we have a couple friends in the know and they are getting ready to treat him as bad as they did trump.stay tuned.
` I appreciate the truth, no matter how hard it is
Despite the revelations, NOTHING will be done!
The coronavirus was man-made in China and released to the West to destabilize its economy. It was an ACT of WAR.
Coupled with China’s aggression in the South China Sea and its harm done to US diplomats, our response should be a cutoff of diplomatic relations and a complete ban on trade with China. We should DEMAND restitution for the damages done WITH interest, VIG if you will. The only other option would be war, which would likely degenerate into a nuclear one.
If we can not stop a Biden cheating himself into the white house I see nothing but a demise of America. China owns Biden and many politicians and the media of this country. The American people that have voted for Biden and the ho from California do not care about America. We will all suffer and America will become a third world country.
we need to plan now because it’s coming . lock and load.
Trace the puppet strings on Creepy Joe, and observe how they go straight to Xi Jinping.
How can we allow China’s puppet Biden to assume the Presidency? Biden should be arrested rather than sworn in.
BIDEN IS EVEN MORE CORRUPT THAN THE KENNEDY RUM RUNNING KLAN. HE WILL HAVE US IN ANOTHER WAR, IN AFRICA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST, IN LESS THAN A YEAR.
Does this surprise any one that the Chinese wanted Biden to win. Take a look at the emails on the Hunter Biden computer. The Bidens’ received money from the Chinese. And apparently some went to Joe Biden. This is and will be for favorite treatment to the Chinese. If main stream media had done their job and reported this when it was made public, many people would not have voted for Biden. WHEN WILL THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DO THEIR JOB AND INVESTIGATE THE CRIMES COMMITED ?
Of course China wants Biden in the oval office. They know that they will be able to walk all over him. They own him!
The MAIN PROBLEM IS….. There are so many DemocRat Atrocities that occur DAILY, that We, The People, can Concentrate on NONE of them. With the So-Called Justice Department solidly based in The Left’s Lap, NOTHING IS EVER PUNISHED….. Resulting in the DemocRats performing ever-more acts of illegality.
So predictable. Actually, I don’t think China has to ramp up efforts to influence Biden and his team since China got Biden elected, he is now beholden to them.
If Biden cheats his way into the White House, Americans better start learning how to speak Chinese!
china is the enemy of the world. they hate all those that might appose them. biden loves the chinese and they have made his family rich. the only way to stop them is if it says made in china, don’t buy it. we have made them rich, now it is time to make them poor.
If we cannot fix this now the people must band together and form a New America. It would be almost all counties in the US. Biden (actually Obama and Harris) can stay behind and be the president of hell.