WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - China is expected to try
to take advantage of any U.S. debt default and both Beijing and
Moscow would seize the opportunity to push narratives about
America's inability to function as a democracy, the top U.S.
intelligence official said on Thursday.
"I think our analysts would agree with you that it would be
almost a certainty that they would look to take advantage of the
opportunity," Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines
told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The divided U.S. Congress is running out of time to raise
the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with the
Treasury Department warning it could be unable to pay its bills
as soon as June 1.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali)
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