CIA Says Winning Tech War With China Top Priority, Citing 'Existential Threat' To US

Epoch Times ^ | 05/23/2025 | Tom Ozimek

[lightman]

DECADES overdue!

Nixon deserved impeachment far more because of his China appeasement than for Watergate.

[lee martell]

That still popular, somewhat overused term:
“Existential Threat” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
It probably works better in print vs hearing someone actually use the term in heard speech.

A “Never Ending” threat also works. Phonetically easier on the ears.

[SecondAmendment]

Good, so when can we expect the revocation all of enemy agents visas and green cards ?

[A_Former_Democrat]

And here I thought Trump and we Trump supporters were the existential threats

[Erik Latranyi]

Yeah, because the CIA/FBI have been so good at stopping those radicalized online while suppressing US citizens’ free speech rights.

[rottweiller_inc]

The problem is the CIA has so destroyed trust in the institution, that I don’t know if this is a true threat or a yet another political gaslighting.

[escapefromboston]

Let me guess : this means the government has to spend millions of more dollars that we can’t afford

[ChessExpert]

They are not saying that part out loud.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SmokingJoe]

What China “appeasement” is that?

[Sirius Lee]

China produces, what? Ten times as many STEM grads as we do? That's a big pool of talent. And even the second benchers are useful to the top talent as they can be employed in the manufacturing process as knowledgeable testers, inspectors, documenters, or simply as gophers.

You can't train a blue haired lesbian studies grad to know what she/he/it is looking at with a Fluoroscope.

[SmokingJoe]

There is no way America is going to continue to keep technological advantage over China when America continues to have nearly seven times as many lawyers as China (even with China having over 4 times as many people as America does), while China is producing a staggering one third of all engineers on the planet every year.
Shut down the gender studies/DEI other garbage departments/faculties in the universities and replace them with engineering schools or continue to see China catch up with and overtake America rapidly in coming years.

[Flint]

China likely has enough spies in research departments across the US to gather all the info needed to counter what ever the CIA is doing.

[dpetty121263]

The CIA is a threat to everyone these days...

[bobcat62]

Both China & India should be considered enemy agents.

If you’re winning a tech war, while issuing student & work visas to Chinese & Indians out the wazoo, you’ll lose the war.

Someone needs to explain to the CIA all that matters is price.

[bobcat62]

This country has destroyed US citizen careers in engineering, by importing cheap engineering labor out the wazoo.

I don’t blame our kids for seeking careers in Law & Business.

[SmokingJoe]

“This country has destroyed US citizen careers in engineering, by importing cheap engineering labor out the wazoo.”

Nope.
Go work for Nvidia, SpaceX, AMD etc. who are always looking for great engineers.

[Vaduz]

Going to be a hard battle everything we invent the data gets sold to them umm hacked that’s the first problem that needs to be addressed.

[sten]

only took them 30 years to figure it out.

embarrassing.