China is biggest US threat, says FBI Director Wray
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday described China’s
Communist government as the biggest threat to the US — revealing his agency has
more than 2,000 active investigations which trace back to the shadowy regime.
In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Wray revealed
there had been a 1,300 percent increase in espionage investigations into the
Chinese region in the past decade and said the party was actively spying on
Fortune 100 countries and trying to influence US politics.
“There’s no country that presents a broader or more
comprehensive threat to America’s innovation, to our economic security and to
our democratic ideas,” he said.
Wray described a chilling effort by the Chinese Communist
Party to pursue a campaign of “economic espionage” which relied on
“businessmen, high level scientists, high-level academics” to try to steal
confidential information and American innovation to take back to China.
“It’s everything from Fortune 100 companies to startups.
It’s agriculture, it’s high tech, it’s aviation, it’s healthcare,” he said.
The intelligence chief also said the CCP were involved in
trying to influence US politics to “try to shift them in a more friendly
pro-China, pro-Chinese Communist Party direction.”
President Trump’s administration has been actively trying to
root-out Chinese covert interference in the US, with Congress also raising
concerns about the Communist country’s influence in American universities.
In January, the chairman of Harvard University’s chemistry
department was charged with lying about his dealings with Chinese agencies who
paid him $1.5 million for research.
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