CIA Director Says More Powerful Xi Could Be a Force for Good
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is consolidating his power in the Communist Party congress that’s under way in Beijing and could use his commanding position as a positive force globally, according to America’s chief spy.
“We think that President Xi will come out of this in a dominant position with incredible capacity to do good around the world,” Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday in Washington. He said the CIA’s “old-school guys who used to do Kremlin work” in the days of the Soviet Union are now tracking the political machinations surrounding the congress that’s held in China only once every five years.