President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for the top U.S. intelligence job, Avril Haines, on Tuesday said the United States should take an aggressive stance toward the threat posed by the aggressive and assertive China that it faces today.
Biden’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) also said she thought it would be some time before Tehran returned to strict compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and that the Democratic Biden administration might itself return to the agreement, which outgoing Republican President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018.