US: FBI Director: Over 2,000 investigations linked to China

US FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Director Christopher Wray has called China the most comprehensive threat to America's innovation, economic security and democratic ideas of any country.

Wray commented in an exclusive interview with Bret Baier of Fox News that the FBI "has over 2,000 active investigations that trace back to the government in China."

Wray went on to say that China had numerous ways of collecting information about the US, using government officials, as well as what he called "non-traditional collectors, which could be businessmen, high-level scientists, high-level academics, people like that, all of whom are in different ways incentivised to steal American innovation and confidential information and take it back to China."

Wray's comments come as US President Donald Trump's national security adviser warned China on Wednesday that the United States is waking up to the threat that it believes the Chinese Communist Party poses “to our great way of life” and will act to check the spread of Beijing's ideology.

National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said his speech challenging China was the first of many in the coming weeks by senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Attorney General William Barr and Wray. O'Brien spoke to a group of business leaders in Phoenix.

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