To White House Events and Supreme Court oral arguments. Evening our live interactive Morning Program washington journal where we hear your voices every day. Cspan now has you covered. Download the app for free today. F. B. I. Director christopher way spoke at the Ronald Reagan library on monday. He said the Chinese Government has stolen more corporate and personal data than all other countries combined. Good evening, everyone. My name is john heubusch, and i have the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. In honor of our men and women in uniform, who defend our freedom around the world, would you please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. Before we get started this evening, theres just a few people in the audience i would like to sure i recognize. Ventura County District attorney eric. Eric . [applause] and Ventura County sheriff. Bill . [applause] and, of course, we want to thank all of the former and current fbi agents and Law Enforcement agents here this evening. Thank you for joining us. [applause] you are all here tonight for a first in our foundations history. This is the very first time we have welcomed the city director of the federal bureau of investigation to the Reagan Library. Its also the first time weve had an audience so well behaved. [laughing] director wray is here tonight in part to celebrate our first of its kind 11,000 squarefoot exhibit on the history of his storied agency. We have artifacts that the public has never seen before, and likely may never see together again. Heres just a few. Some personal effects of the fbis first director, j. Edgar hoover. The automobile known as bonnie and clyde death car. We have John Dillinger is a gun as well. The unit bombers manifesto. A raft used by three prisoners to escape alcatraz, or did they . And engine from one of the aircraft that terrorist used to destroy the World Trade Center on 9 11. The fbi history, its history, fascinate so many. Its predecessor organization founded by Teddy Roosevelts first attorney general, charles bonaparte, yes, those bonaparte, he is the grandnephew of the emperor napoleon. So a lot to explore in this exhibit, and hope that you will pay to visit it if you havent had the chance already. Importantly, we could not have put this exhibition together without the help of the fbi, both in its l. A. Main office and headquarters in washington, d. C. Tonight though, with director wray i know that we will move beyond the past and continue the journey into the threats the fbi is confronting today and tomorrow. By the directors own count, the fbi has investigated 100 different types of ransomware. Its opening a new china counterintelligence investigation every ten hours. It has rested more than 600 game members in a single month, and thousands of tips pour into the bureaus National ThreatOperations Center every day. This is an agency whose adversaries seem to shape shift by the day, so it takes a seasoned professional to lead its mission. In christopher wray, they have won. Now, if we were to prepare an exhibit on directors ray dasha director wrays career, 2001 would be the key moment when he moved from being assistant u. S. Attorney from the Northern District of georgia to the role of associate Deputy Attorney general at the Justice Department shortly before the 9 11 attacks, in the tiktok of that fateful day, you would see he spent the afternoon at the fbi in the strategic information Operations Center with director mueller and attorney general john ashcroft. This exhibit might include highlights from his time as the youngest assistant attorney general leading the Dojs Criminal Division would prosecute names like enron, and fine the Edmund J Randolph award, the dojs highest honor for leadership in Public Service which he received in 2005, a testament to his character and dedication. And i imagine you might also see a photo or two of his days at yale, especially meaningful place as thats where he met his wife, helen. Yet, as full as his career has been, i would wager the most compelling parts of his biography are yet to be written. Because there are too many threats to confront, too many enemies to defeat, and too many cases to solve. So the next chapter of his life to be any thing less. Ladies and gentlemen, for a truly special evening here at the Reagan Library please welcome the eighth, yes, only the eighth director of the fbi, christopher wray. [applause] thanks, everybody. Thank you. Well, thank you, john. And i have to say im honored to be here with you at the Ronald Reagan president ial library. The use of president reagans administration were momentous ones, defined, in large part, by our struggle against the soviet union, whose empire, where freedoms we hold dear were snuffed out. Im sure everyone here is familiar with the president reagans speech at the Brandenburg Gate in june 1987, when he called out mr. Gorbachev by name and challenged him to tear down this wall between free west berlin and imprisoned east germany, a nightmare surveillance state where no personal information was offlimits to the government. The fbi was deeply engaged in that struggle, tracking soviet agents operating here in the United States and protecting our freedoms from a dangerous enemy. That era and that work are a huge part of the fbis legacy and history, a history that the library has captured so well in this exhibit. So i want to take a moment to thank the library and john and the exhibit curators, randle swan, jennifer torres, lauren haischedwards, robert zucca, and derek lyneis for the great care youve taken in telling the fbis story. Thank you for the tour this afternoon, thank you for showcasing our organization and our people, whom im proud and humbled to represent, and thank you for allowing me to join you here this evening. I also want to congratulate whoever came up with the name for the exhibit, fbi, from al capone to alqaeda. Its not only catchy, and also captures the way the world has changed since the bureaus establishment back in 1908 and the way we have evolved as a Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agency to keep ahead of the changing threats we face. Today, we in the United States and the western world find ourselves in a very different struggle against another global adversary, the Chinese Communist party. Now, there are some surface level similarities between the threat posed by the Chinese Government and the historical threat of the soviet union. The Chinese Government also rejects the fundamental freedoms, basic human rights, and democratic norms we value as americans. But the soviet union didnt make much that anyone in america wanted to buy. We didnt invest in each others economies or send huge numbers of students to study in each others universities. The u. S. And todays china are far more interconnected than the u. S. And the old ussr ever were, and china is an economic power on a level the soviets could never have dreamed of being. Using capabilities to steal and threaten rather than to cooperate and build and that theft, those threats are happening right here in america literally every day. Thats what i want to talk to you about tonight, the threat posed by the Chinese Government here at home to our Economic Security and to our freedom. Our freedom of speech, of conscience, our freedom to elect and be served by our representatives without foreign meddling. Our freedom to prosper when we toil and invent. Ive spoke and lot about this threat since i became fbi director, but i want to focus on it here tonight because in many ways, its reached a new level. More brazen, more damaging than ever before and its vital, vital that all of us focus on that threat together. Now, having said that, i do want to be clear that the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist party pose a threat were focused on countering, not the Chinese People and certainly not chineseamericans who are themselves frequently victims of the Chinese Governments lawless aggression, protecting them from the Chinese Government is top of mind for us, too. America a richer and stronger because of the generations of people who immigrated here from china many will celebrate the lunar festival this week. And at the fbi were commit today protecting the safety and rights of all americans. At the bureau weve long held the view that protecting our nations innovations an in both Law Enforcement priority and National Security. And it keeps individuals employed, families to make ends meet and fully live their lives, to put food on the table. And thats what is at stake with the Chinese Government, its not just home economics, its macro economics. Americas strength is build on our innovation and our striving citizens and the world changing products and services that they built, from the invention of the airplane around the time of the fbis founding, to the computer, the internet, gps, life saving medicines and thousands of others over the decades. When we tally up what we see in our investigations, over 2000 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. The Chinese Government steals staggering volumes of information and causes deep job destroying damage across a wide range of industries. So much so, that as you heard, were constantly opening new cases to counter their intelligence operations. About every 12 hours or so. What makes the Chinese Government strategy so insidious is the way it exploits multiple avenues at once, often in seemingly innocuous ways. They identify key technologies to target, their made in china 2025 plan, for example, lists 10 broad ones, the keys to economic success in the coming century, robotics, Green Energy Production and vehicles, aerospace, biopharma, and so on. And then, and then they throw over tool in their arsenal at stealing technology to succeed in those areas. Here in the u. S. They unleash a massive sophisticated Hacking Program bigger than those of every other nation combined. Operating from pretty much every city in china from a lot of funding and sophisticated tools and often joining forces with cyber criminals, in effect, cyber mecenamercenaries. And a group of hackers stole terra bytes from a company. One terra byte is around 70 million pages of data, think about that. Theyre not just hacking on a huge scale, but causing indiscriminate damage to get what they want like in the recent Microsoft Exchange hack, which compromised the networks of more than 10,000 American Companies in a Single Campaign alone. At the same time, the Chinese Government uses Intelligence Officers to target the same information multiplying their efforts by working extensively through scores of socalled coo coopees, spotting and assesses sources and providing cover, communications and helping steal secrets in other ways. The Chinese Government also makes partnerships and position their proxies to take valuable technology. Sometimes they wave enough money to get what they want. But often conceal which companies they actually control. Or use companies they dont literally own, but instead can control through embedded Chinese Communist party cells to exist in virtually in any Chinese Company of any real size. Using elaborate shell games to disguise their efforts both from our companies and from our Government InvestmentScreening Program sifius, the committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. Within china, they force u. S. Companies to partner with Chinese Governmentowned ones to do business in china and then abuse and exploit those partnerships. A recent case from ohio is a great illustration of the Chinese Governments multipronged strategy for stealing our valuable secrets. This past november a chinese Intelligence Officer named jeung was convicted of espionage in cincinnati. He was part of the Chinese Service responsible for stealing aviation related secrets. He was targeting an advanced engine made by ge and a foreign joint venture partner they were working to copy. And he corrupted insiders with access to company data and access to Company Infrastructure so he could help mss hackers in cyber units in china target the same data at the same time. He used one of his recruits or cooptees, a Senior Company official to help install malware and kept track to make sure they could access the implant hed uploaded and steal a similar fan Blade Technology that only ge possesses and this one an official at a Chinese University to contact a ge engineer through linkedin. Id be remiss if we didnt say we see a lot of chinese outreach on social media especially on linkedin and they offered him a trip and then another to europe. When we saw what happened we at ge were able to use our relationship to Work Together to foil the attempted threat. Letting the scheme appear to play out, but helping ge provide the engineer altered documents to steal. So in this case, at least, because of ges quick work and cooperation, china was not able to leapfrog over a decade of hard work and billions in investment to under cut a major u. S. Employer with nearly 50,000 employees. But were waging this battle every day. As dangerous as that blend of tools all directed at a single Companys Technology is, whats really scary is how come on chinese operations like that one have become. Shue is just one chinese Intelligence Officer working for an entire unit dedicated solely to stealing aviation related secrets and thats just one of the Ten Technology areas the Chinese Government prioritized for stealing. Just using cyber means, Chinese Government hackers have stolen more of our personal and corporate data than every other nation combined. The harm from the Chinese Governments economic espionage isnt just that its Companies Pull ahead based on illegally gotTen Technology, while they pull ahead, they push our companies and workers behind. That harm, company failures, job losses, has been building for a decade for the crush that we feel today. Its harm felt across the country in a whole range of industries. Ill give you an example. Several years ago, a Chinese Governmentowned corporation signed sinevel stole the source codes for Wind Turbines from a u. S. Company in massachusetts. Causing that u. S. Company, american semiconductor, to plummet from being a 1. 6 billion company to 200 Million Company and from 900 employees to only 300 employees. Thats 600 people who lost their livelihoods. And while those people were trying to figure out how to cope with catastrophe, they were adding insult to injury using the source code theyd stolen to sell Wind Turbines right here in the United States. In 2015, the C