China 'more brazen' than ever; Threat to our economic security, says FBI director

"There is just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China," said FBI chief Christopher Wray.

Washington: Stressing that threats posed by China in the United States is "more brazen" than ever before, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray said that China is trying to steal American innovation and technology than all other nations.

"When we tally up what we see in our investigations--over 2,000 of which are focused on the Chinese government trying to steal our information and technology--there is just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China," Wray said in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Monday.

"Here in the US, they unleash a massive, sophisticated hacking program that is bigger than those of every other major nation combined," he said.