One of the United States’ most senior intelligence chiefs says that the war on terror distracted them for more than a decade from the growing threat of China.
One of the United States’ most senior intelligence chiefs says that the war on terror distracted them for more than a decade from the growing threat of China and delivering on the long-promised tilt towards the Indo-Pacific.
“With the pacing threat we’ve stood up another regional intelligence centre ... called the China Mission Group and that is a group of analysts, mission managers, operators and collectors that all focus on the problems,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that they will do it by force but they certainly appear to be building the military capability to do that,” he said.if the DIA had waited too long to pour its resources into the region, Berrier agreed they should have been refocusing a decade ago.
Obama was critical of his predecessor George W. Bush for not focusing enough on Asia and in a speech to the Australian parliament in 2011, announced that the United States national security team was prioritising the region.“The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay,” Obama said at the time, remarking that the “tide of war” was “receding” with the American troops leaving Iraq and the transition underway to Afghan authorities.
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