
China to wage 'cold war' with USA, CIA expert says
July 21 (UPI) -- China is waging a 'cold war' against the United States of America, a CIA agent told an Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. "I would argue ... that what they're waging against us is fundamentally a cold war - a cold war not like we saw during THE Cold War [between the U.S. and the Soviet Union] but a cold war by definition," Deputy Assistant Director Michael Collins of the CIA's East Asia Mission Center told the Washington Post Columnist and Associate Editor David Ignatius who moderated Aspen Security Forum in Colorado Friday. "A country that exploits all avenues of power," including "economic, military" to undermine the standing of its rival compared to its "own standing without resorting to conflict." Collins added that the threat is not necessarily coming from China itse...