Biden administration to be stern on aggressive, assertive China

Avril Haines is Biden's nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

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President elect Joe Biden's choice for top intelligence job in America is Avril Haines.

US is expected to be hard on China as Haines on Tuesday said, the US should take an aggressive stance towards the threat posed by aggressive and assertive China according to a report published in Reuters.

Haines is Biden's nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The former CIA Deputy Director said, her priority is to restore the trust of people and within the intelligence system of US.

She has reportedly said to devote more resources to China. Haines said, "Our approach to China has to evolve and essentially meet the reality of the particularly assertive and aggressive China that we see today."

Haines added that she supported an aggressive stance to deal with the challenge that they are facing. On the recent solar wind attacks, she said that Biden had indicted to inflict costs on the solar wind attackers.

Haines charted out a contrast to the Trump administration that politicized the intelligence agencies while speaking to the Senate Intelligence committee.

Haines also said that DNI must speak truth and it should not be politicized.

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