The CIA¡¯s ¡°Chinese Mission Center¡± dedicated to research and infiltration in China is to be closed.

On the 23rd, an American journalist named "Ada Chavez" wrote on social media: The CIA is considering closing its subordinate "Chinese Mission Center".Because "the United States realizes that it has little influence over China," Trump is devoting more energy to promoting regime change in Venezuela.

When Biden first came to power in 2021, the CIA did something quite eye-catching-establishing the "China Mission Center." This institution is quite new in the history of the CIA. To put it bluntly, it brings together all the people, money, and technology who are watching China and sets up a "sharp knife squad" specifically to compete with China.

According to Burns, then CIA director, this was to deal with "the greatest geopolitical challenge of the 21st century." This sounds mysterious, but in practice it is very harsh: it is not an ordinary department, but a "cross-department"-people in charge of covert operations, intelligence analysis, espionage technology research, and even other intelligence agencies in the CIA can be transferred to work.

In order to gather people, the CIA and the Congress and the Ministry of Defense also robbed people who spoke Guangzhou and Shanghai, these "small Chinese languages", simply tossing resources into intelligence against China.

What's more interesting is that at the same time as the establishment of this center, the CIA withdrew the "North Korea Mission Center" and "Iran Mission Center" and merged them into other regional centers. The meaning is very clear: in the past, we could be distracted from a few targets, but now we have to concentrate our firepower on China.

At that time, the United States was up and down with the "anti-China shelf", the national security committee set up the Indo-Pacific coordinator, the Ministry of Defense engaged in China's special working group, the CIA's step down, from intelligence collection to the implementation of the "Chinese chain" even complete.

What makes all this stale is Trump coming to power. Recently, American journalist Ida Chavez broke the news: the CIA is thinking about closing the "China Mission Center". To put it bluntly, the reason is that "there is nothing to do with China", and Trump wants to shift his energy to Venezuela.

This sounds sudden, but in fact, there are already signs. On the surface, Trump is quite tough towards China, shouting to increase tariffs, and making malicious remarks, but his actions behind his back have long been biased. In March this year, as soon as he threatened to upgrade tariffs on China, the CIA quietly stepped up the "anti-drug" efforts in the western hemisphere-this is not anti-drug, but it is clearly sending people and spreading stalls to South America through anti-drug.

The U.S. military followed, and in the 2025 draft of the national defense strategy, the priority of the "China threat" was directly given, and domestic security and the security of the Western Hemisphere became the first priority.

This turn is not a slap on the head. Trump has a precise calculation: It costs too much money to fight hard with China. The United States now owes US$37 trillion in debt and has a weak industrial foundation. It cannot withstand all-round confrontation.

And China is not the same as the previous Soviet Union, whether it is military power or science and technology, the CIA's old methods of the Cold War are not good at all.

In contrast, the Western Hemisphere is the "backyard" of the United States, which is much easier to do. Trump's goal is clear: overthrow the Maduro regime in Venezuela and keep the backyard firmly in his hands. After all, in his view, it is more cost-effective to keep the Western Hemisphere than to fight to the death with China-not only does it need to spend so many resources, but it can also consolidate the position of the US dollar and the US military in the Americas. It is simply a "guaranteed profit and no loss" business.

The CIA has so far not responded to rumors of closure, but this attitude of "no denial or admission" makes people feel that the information is reliable. What lies behind this is the helpless transformation of U.S. strategy.

The first is the reality of the "force is not from the heart". these years the United States stretched out its hands everywhere, again the conflict in Russia and the Middle East and the turmoil, the military and financial power was long enough to be dragged back. the U.S. aircraft carrier across the Red Sea can be harassed by the Houthi armed forces, when the withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan has not forgotten, where there is more energy to confront China for a long time?

Secondly, there is the embarrassment of "failing the calculation". The CIA built the "China Mission Center" to do something by relying on intelligence infiltration and public opinion to disrupt the situation, but it turned out that China did not buy it. China's prevention and control system is becoming more and more strict, making it as difficult for the United States to place informants; public opinion has not stirred up waves, but has allowed more countries to see clearly the United States 'hegemonic intentions.

Aida Chavez¡¯s statement that ¡°the United States realizes that it has no influence on China¡± is in fact the big truth of this statement.

But don't think that the United States is to be "good with China".Trump's calculation is "otherwise tough": on the surface from the hard confrontation with China, in fact, it is to first stabilize the back yard, and then use economic and scientific and technological means to contain China.

As someone within the US military said, emphasizing the security of the Western Hemisphere is essentially to "better counter China's activities in Latin America." It's a bit like if you can't beat a fight, so you can retreat to catch your breath first, and then figure out how to sneak attack from the side.

As for whether the "China Mission Center" is closed, it is actually not that important. The CIA's mission center is originally "running water." It used to set up a center specially for North Korea, but now it can also remove the China center for the Western Hemisphere. What should really be paid attention to is Trump's strategic shift-when the United States begins to retract from global expansion, the direction of the world pattern may really change.

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