FBI Director Wray: China Is Biggest Espionage Threat US Faces

The Guardian/Reuters: China theft of technology is biggest law enforcement threat to US, FBI says

* Christopher Wray says China using ‘any means necessary’
* Chinese theft of US trade secrets costing ‘$300bn-$600bn a year’

The FBI on Thursday identified China as the biggest law enforcement threat to the United States, and its director said Beijing was seeking to steal American technology by “any means necessary”.

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told a conference the bureau currently had about 1,000 investigations open into Chinese technology theft across its 56 regional offices.

The agency’s counterintelligence chief, John Brown, said the bureau arrested 24 people in 2019 in China-related cases and had already arrested 19 people in 2020.

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