Barr Sounds Alarm on Chinese Regime’s ‘Technological Blitzkrieg’ on US

By Cathy He February 6, 2020

The Chinese regime is deploying an “all-tools and all-sectors approach” to “steal their way up the economic ladder” at the United States’ expense, FBI Director Chris Wray told a Washington conference on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “China Initiative” program.

“That demands our own all-tools and all-sectors approach in response,” Wray said.

In late 2018, the DOJ launched the China Initiative to crack down on state-sponsored theft of U.S. trade secrets and Beijing’s foreign influence activities. Since then, the department has brought dozens of China-related espionage cases against a variety of actors, including Chinese intelligence officers, Chinese and U.S. academics, and Chinese companies. Some of these actors are “non-traditional collectors,” such as Chinese graduate students participating in university research programs.

More than 80 percent of all economic espionage charges brought by federal prosecutors since 2012 have implicated China, according to the department.

Thecommunist regime employs a wide range of techniques—such as cyber hacking, corrupting company insiders, and physical theft—to target valuable scientific and technical information held by the private sector and academia, Wray said.

“They are attempting to capture the benefits of our free society by outright stealing our technology. The stealing of technology is not a sideshow. It undergirds and propels their efforts,” Attorney General William Barr said at the same event............To Read More....