CHINA APPEARS UNDETERRED ON USING FORCE IN TAIWAN: CIA

Thu 21 July 2022:

Russia’s experience in Ukraine affecting Beijing’s calculations on when and how — not whether — to invade, the head of the CIA said Wednesday.

“Our sense is that it probably affects less the question of whether the Chinese leadership might choose some years down the road to use force to control Taiwan, but how and when they would do it,” Bill Burns told the Aspen Security Forum when asked on the lessons Beijing is taking from Ukraine.

Sri Lanka made ‘dumb bets’

As quoted by news agency AFP, Burns told the Aspen Security Forum that all the countries should look at “object lessons of a place like Sri Lanka today – heavily indebted to China – which has made some really dumb bets about their economic future and are suffering pretty catastrophic, both economic and political consequences as a result.”

He added, “That, I think, ought to be an object lesson to a lot of other players – not just in the Middle East or South Asia, but around the world – about having your eyes wide open about those kinds of dealings.”

Not the just chief of the US intelligence agency, many experts have said that China’s debt trap diplomacy has become a major cause of Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis.

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