Fmr. CIA Chief in Beijing: China Has Always Been Active in Influencing U.S. Elections But to Interfere — ‘No’

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PHILLIPS: “It‘s been going on for the last 25 to 30 years where they use their resources and their considerable to learn more about the candidate candidates and the people around them and what interests them, how they view China, what it is that they may do once in office, and then also the intelligence agencies of China will look at that as to see if they can find some vulnerabilities in some of the the people in and around the candidate or, uh, either candidate. And so I think, yes, they are very active in the cyber side. They‘re very active on the human side. But have they interfered? No. Have they tried to influence particularly frankly, let‘s look at the whole debate around TikTok before they had a very powerful tool there of 150 million Americans on TikTok. And that would certainly be an avenue to try to influence but interfere? No.”