The videos are “aimed at recruiting Chinese officials to steal secrets,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement to The Associated Press. He said China “is intent on dominating the world economically,

The CIA on Thursday rolled out two Chinese-language videos aimed at enticing officials in China to leak secrets to the U.S., the latest public effort by the intelligence agency to ramp up human intelligence gathering on Washington's strategic rival.

The CIA has released a pair of videos online as part of efforts to recruit Chinese officials, as tensions between the countries continue to grow.