{"id":29646,"date":"2020-12-02T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29646"},"modified":"2020-12-02T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:24:33","slug":"china-zeros-in-on-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29646","title":{"rendered":"CHINA ZEROS IN ON BIDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said Wednesday that Chinese foreign influence efforts have pivoted since the election to target members of the incoming administration of President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvncsvhh_yqfskkqlqnsgmgvkfccv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvncsvhh_yqfskkqlqnsgmgvkfccv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607041795548000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnaWfsmCpzRHKX0jisNrgNaRotMQ\">Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen an uptick, which was planned, and we predicted, that China would now revector their influence campaigns to a new administration,\u201d Evanina said at the Aspen Institute\u2019s virtual Cyber Summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are starting to see that now play across the country to not only folks that are in the new administration, but those who are around those folks in the new administration,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s one area we are going to be very keen on making sure the new administration understands, that influence, what it looks like, what it tastes like, what it feels like when you see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evanina, who described Biden as the president-elect, noted that it was \u201creally important\u201d that Biden be able to see this intelligence. Biden, along with Vice President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jfqfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbsvtbqf_yqfskkqlqnsgmgvkfccv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jfqfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbsvtbqf_yqfskkqlqnsgmgvkfccv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607041795548000&amp;usg=AFQjCNElrbgZ6pJmVQis8rypVQpDVlLawg\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, received his first daily presidential intelligence briefing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xsbsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdgrpdjc_yqfskkqlqnsgmgvkfccv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xsbsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdgrpdjc_yqfskkqlqnsgmgvkfccv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607041795548000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFgvvsWtjWYy2K25jfmHw5CEouUeA\">earlier this week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Evanina, the director of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29647,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646\/revisions\/29647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}