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    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      CIA director warns Russia against use of nuclear weapons

      US intelligence chief Bill Burns meets his Russian counterpart Sergei Naryshkin in Ankara

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      What the CIA thinks: William Burns on the new world disorder

      Fifty years after Nixon’s cold war coup, the US is facing a new global realignment

    • Sunday, 8 May, 2022
      Putin ‘doesn’t believe he can afford to lose’ — William Burns, CIA director

      Intelligence chief discusses Russian president and war in Ukraine at FTWeekend Festival in Washington

    • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      CIA director says China ‘unsettled’ by Ukraine war

      Bill Burns tells FT conference that invasion may have affected Xi Jinping’s calculations over Taiwan

    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
      Chinese politics & policy
      Ukraine war likely to influence China on Taiwan, US intelligence chiefs say

      Response by western allies would influence Beijing’s ‘calculus’ on securing control, officials tell House committee

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      US foreign policy
      Biden turns to spy chief for tricky diplomatic missions

      CIA director Bill Burns tries to re-engineer the agency while dealing with Russia and an assertive China

    • Monday, 11 January, 2021
      US politics & policy
      Biden to nominate veteran diplomat William Burns as CIA director

      US president-elect moves to build out his national security team ahead of inauguration

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