FBI director defends investigations of Chinese academics in front of university audience
, saying that there is no “more serious, more persistent threat to our innovation, our ideas and our economic security than the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government.”
It’s important to understand hidden relationships U.S.-based academics and researchers may have with Chinese universities, Wray said, especially if the academics are conducting research funded by American taxpayers. Wray, who rarely takes questions in public from journalists, was pressed by Lin to defend his statement that “the Chinese government is engaged in a whole of society effort to steal from the United States.”
But she said she would have liked to see Wray acknowledge the extent to which many prosecutions of Chinese academics collapsed. She added that she believes the FBI has overstated the threat of technology transfer in an academic setting in which research is usually published for all the world to see.
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