Biden’s DNI Pick: Biden’s ‘Frame’ For China Not ‘Adversary’ But ‘Global Competitor’

On Tuesday, at a hearing on her nomination for Director of National Intelligence befire the Senate Intelligence Committee, Avril Haines stated that president-elect Joe Biden wants his administration to view the Chinese Communist Party not as an adversary, but a “global competitor.”

After Intelligence Committee Chairman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) had called the Chinese Communist Party an “adversary,” the ranking Democrat on the committee, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), said, “I want to start by building on what the chairman said in his opening comments, that for I would argue a number of decades, we had a bipartisan consensus about China, that the more they came into the world order, the closer they would move to some level of international norms.”