“The greatest long term threat to our nation’s information & intellectual property & to our economic vitality is the #counterintelligence & economic espionage threat from China.” —Christopher Wray, #FBI Dir on the significance of China’s threat to the US (& its allies) #IPTheft
“If you think this is just an intel issue, govt prob or nuisance just for big corps—you couldn’t be more wrong. It’s the [Americans] who’re the victims of what amounts to Chinese theft on a scale so massive—it reps one of the largest transfers of wealth in history.”—#FBI Dir Wray
“We’ve now reached the point where the FBI is now opening up a China-related counterintelligence case—about every 10hrs. Of the nearly 5,000 active CI cases in the US—50% are related to China.”—Christopher Wray, FBI Director on China #IPTheft #Surveillance #ChinaModel #中国模式 
“At this very moment, China is working to compromise American healthcare orgs, pharmaceutical companies & academic insts conducting essential #COVID19 R&D.” —Christopher Wray, FBI Director on China’s ongoing #IPTheft #espionage of US #coronavirus efforts foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/16/chi…
“Let me be clear this isn’t about the Chinese ppl & it’s certainly not about Chinese-Americans—every yr [we] welcome >100,000 Chinese students/researchers [& we have a history of welcoming Chinese ppl]—so when I speak of the threat from China—I mean the govt of China & the CCP.”
(1) “We need to be clear eyed about the scope of CCP’s ambition—China believes it’s in a Gen-fight to surpass our country in economic & #tech leadership. It’s waging that fight not thru tech innovation, fair & lawful completion, or by giving their citizens [freedoms] we cherish.”
“China is engaged in a whole-of-state effort to become the worlds only superpower by any means necessary.”—Christopher Wray, #FBI Dir on China’s strategy to become the sole superpower; Senator Romney @MittRomney concurs
(2) “China uses a diverse range of sophisticated techs—cyber intrusions to corrupting trusted insiders—engaged in outright physical theft, and pioneered an expansive approach to stealing innovation thru a wide-range of actors (intel svcs, SOEs, pvt firms, grad students, etc).”
“Instead of engaging in the hard slog of #innovation, China often steals American IP & then uses it to compete against the very American companies it victimized—in effect cheating twice.”—Christopher Wray, #FBI Dir on China’s #business strategy to leap frog its #tech
“[China’s] targeting EVERYTHING from military equipment to wind turbines to rice & corn seeds—thru it’s talent recruitment (eg. Thousand Talents Plan #千人计划) to entice our scientists to bring our innovation back to China, even if it means stealing/violating export controls.”
“We’re conducting cases in all of our field offices—over the past 10yrs, we’ve seen economic #espionage cases w/a link to China ⬆️ by ~1300%—the stakes could not be higher & the potential economic harm to American businesses & the economy as a whole defies calculation.”—Wray @FBI
“China also uses ‘malign’ foreign influence (FI) to manipulate Americans (trad FI is normal diplo acty)—but malign FIers are undeclared, subversive, coercive attempts to sway our govt’s policies, distort public discourse & undermine confidence in our democratic processes/values.”
“China is engaged in a sophisticated malign foreign influence campaign [against the US]—methods incl: bribery, blackmail, covert deals. China’s diplomats also use [pressure tactics] to push China’s prefs on American officials.”—#FBI Dir Wray @IRIglobal @DaveShullman @demdigest
(3) “The American ppl need to remember China has a fundamentally different system—and its doing all it can to exploit the openness of our sys (and others), while sim taking advantage of its own closed system.”—#FBI Dir Wray on China’s exploitation of democracy to its advantage
“Many of the distinctions that mean much in the US are blurry/non-existent in China—distinctions btwn govt & CCP, civilian & mil, state & pvt sectors. Many large Chinese businesses are SOEs—literally owned by the govt; thus the CCP.”—#FBI Dir Wray on public v private entity issue
As the world’s largest telecom equip mftr Huawei #华为 has broad access to much US firms do in China—it’s routinely/repeatedly stolen IP from US companies, obstructed justice & lied to the USG & it’s commercial partners (eg. banks).”—#FBI’s Wray on #Huawei fbi.gov/news/speeches/…
“Chinese govt is engaged in a broad diverse campaign of theft & malign influence—it can execute that campaign w/authoritarian efficiency. [The CCP] is calculating, persistent, patient—and not subject to the ROL constraints of democratic societies.”—#FBI’s Dir Wray on the CCP
“Our investigations & prosecutions, have exposed the tradecraft & techniques the Chinese use, raising awareness of the threat & our industries defenses—our indictments have rallied other nations to aid in persuading the CCP to change its behavior.”—#FBI’s Wray #IPTheft #espionage
“It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t coexist w/China on the world stage—but it does mean when China violates our laws & int’l norms—we aren’t going to tolerate it, much less enable it. We’ll hold China accountable, protect our nation’s innovations, ideas & way of life.” —#FBI Dir Wray
Post-#COVID19—US & others see China as having overplayed its hand in a boldfaced manner; seeking wronged party apologies when confronted. The CCP not only—hasn’t relented in its IP theft—but audaciously ⬆️ many of its alienating behaviors poss turning 40yrs of int’l fortune sour.
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