Thread by @BowenXiao_

🚨 FBI Dir. Chris Wray just adressed China threat at Hudson institute:

"If you are an American adult, it is more likely than not that China has stolen your personal data.

"Our data isn’t the only thing at stake here—so are our health, our livelihoods, and our security." [1]

Wray said the China threat is so significant that AG Barr and Pompeo "will also be addressing a lot of these issues in the next few weeks."

He said his speech today provided "more detail on the Chinese threat than the FBI has ever presented in an open forum." [2]

Continued:

"It’s the people of the United States who are the victims of what amounts to Chinese theft on a scale so massive that it represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history."

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"The CCP believes it is in a generational fight to surpass our country in economic and technological leadership.

"It’s waging this fight not through legitimate innovation.. China is engaged in a whole-of-state effort to become the world’s only superpower.." [4]

"American people need to understand.. China uses a diverse range of sophisticated techniques—everything from cyber intrusions to corrupting trusted insiders.

"They’ve even engaged in outright physical theft. And they’ve pioneered an expansive approach to stealing innovation [5]

"Through its talent recruitment programs.. the Chinese government tries to entice scientists to secretly bring our knowledge and innovation back to China—even if that means stealing proprietary information or violating our export controls and conflict-of-interest rules." [6]

"Over the past decade, we’ve seen economic espionage cases with a link to China increase by approximately 1,300 percent," he said.

"The stakes could not be higher, and the potential economic harm to American businesses and the economy as a whole almost defies calculation." [7]

"China is using social media platforms—the same ones Americans use to stay connected or find jobs—to identify people with access to our government’s sensitive information and then target those people to try to steal it."

"It’s a troublingly similar story in academia.." [8]

"China is engaged in a highly sophisticated malign foreign influence campaign, and its methods include bribery, blackmail, and covert deals.

"Chinese diplomats also use both open, naked economic pressure and seemingly independent middlemen to push China’s preferences.." [9]

"China has leverage over the American official’s constituents.. companies, academics, and members of the media all have legitimate and understandable reasons to want access to Chinese partners and markets.

"China has immense power over those same partners and markets." [10]

"Our investigations and the resulting prosecutions have exposed the tradecraft and techniques the Chinese use.."

"We can’t do it on our own; we need a whole-of-society response."

[Note: this is just a very small portion of Wray's full remarks]

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