FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on the current threat environment, November 5, 2019. In advance of Thursday’s event, Evanina estimated the theft of American trade secrets by China costs the United States “anywhere from $300 to $600 billion” a year. The FBI data shows an aggressively stepped-up campaign by U.S. authorities to root out Chinese espionage operations pursuing American secrets. They also caught and jailed former CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency officials on espionage charges linked to China. According to CSIS, of 137 publicly reported instances of Chinese-linked espionage against the United States since 2000, 73% took place in the last decade.

Source: GNN Liberia February 06, 2020 19:22 UTC