CIA: China like Russia is a major threat

washington - China's attempts to gain undetected influence in the West are at least as dangerous as the Russian. This is what the chief of the American intelligence service CIA, Mike Pompeo, told the BBC. Western countries have to cooperate and do more against the Chinese threat, Pompeo emphasizes.

He points out that China is trying to steal confidential information from trade and industry and tries to infiltrate schools and hospitals. Pompeo also says that 'China is capable of much more than Russia, if you look at the economy of the two powers. '

Earlier this year, an ex-agent of the CIA, Jerry Chun Shing, was arrested, apparently in connection with an investigation into the collapse of the CIA in China. In the past two years, around twenty agents or informants have been captured or killed in the People's Republic.