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Here’s why China has gone on the offensive against Biden
A giant screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping attending the opening session of the National People s Congress at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, on March 5, 2021. Photo via Tingshu Wang/Reuters.
Top US government officials are studying China’s increased diplomatic bravado and growing military assertiveness with all the intensity of elite athletes poring over game films of their most resourceful rival.
From the CIA to the White House, and from the Pentagon to Foggy Bottom, what these officials are reporting is a far greater willingness by China to go on the offensive in the first 100 days of the Biden administration. The Chinese are more ready to push back against real and imagined slights from the United States and its allies, even as they escalate warnings and military activities around Taiwan.
In a Wednesday op-ed for the Washington Post, two members of the Atlantic Council described being emailed by someone impersonating Leonid Volkov, the chief of staff to imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Melinda Haring, the deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. and Damon Wilson, the Washington foriegn policy think tank’s executive vice president, described nearly being convinced by a suspected Russian prankster impersonating Volkov.
“The email was well-written and sympathetic,” the pair wrote in the op-ed published Wednesday. “It praised our work and requested an on-camera meeting with the top three executives at our organization, one of Washington’s leading think tanks. But the message was fake. The people who sent it were trying to lure us into a potentially sensitive or even embarrassing online conversation.”