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One year after Afghanistan, spy agencies pivot toward China

FILE - People walk past a billboard welcoming U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in Taipei, Taiwan, Aug 3, 2022. Days after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Kabul, China staged large-scale military exercises and threatened to cut off contacts with the U.S. over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File) FILE - Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on Iran sanctions. The CIA drone attack that killed al-Qaida’s leader showed that fighting terrorism is hardly an afterthought. But it didn’t change the message deputy director David Cohen delivered at that meeting weeks earlier: While the U.S. will continue to go after terrorists, their top priority is trying to better understand and counter Beijing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan. One year after ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden and top national security officials speak less about counterterrorism and more about the political, economic, and military threats posed by China as well as Russia. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP, File)
One year after Afghanistan, spy agencies pivot toward China