{"id":1727,"date":"2021-02-24T17:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:24:58","slug":"joe-bidens-cia-nominee-william-burns-calls-china-an-authoritarian-adversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden\u2019s CIA nominee William Burns calls China an \u2018authoritarian adversary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostUS President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to be director of the CIA, William Burns, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he saw competition with China \u2013 and countering its \u201cadversarial, predatory\u201d leadership \u2013 as the key to US national security.Burns, 64, a former career diplomat who worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations, is expected to easily win confirmation to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Burns has already been confirmed by the Senate five times for his\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3123007\/joe-bidens-cia-nominee-william-burns-calls-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostUS President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to be director of the CIA, William Burns, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he saw competition with China \u2013&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}