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FBI Director Christopher Wray defended the Justice Department’s investigations and prosecutions of Chinese academics in America.
Wray spoke at the University of Michigan on Friday and said 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.” His comments are in line with recent views on national security, but were spurred by a Chinese political science student who asked about the now defunct “China Initiative,” a series of cases from the Justice Department that lost in court.
The Justice Department’s “China Initiative” was their effort to investigate and prosecute U.S.-based Chinese professors suspected of sharing research with their home country. Wray also said during his conversation, “We do not base our cases on race, ethnicity or national origin, and we haven’t.”
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