NORFOLK, Va. — The Chinese government is the single greatest threat to the economic and national security of the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday at the bureau’s Norfolk Field Office.
Noting that he was in Hampton Roads — home to the world’s largest naval base and several other crucial military installations and defense contractors — Wray said risks from across the Pacific must be a primary area of national focus.
Wray’s comments come less than two weeks after an F-22 fighter jet from Langley Air Force Base in Hampton shot down a Chinese “spy balloon” off the South Carolina coast. The balloon had sailed across the continental United States for about a week.
