Interesting speech. I'm sure China and other countries have similar examples involving the US... The semiconductor industry may have started out that way but today it is dependent on a massive amount collaboration and sharing of secrets. The key is to innovate and move fast to keep competitors behind you. People, companies or countries that depend on copying do not have the innovative strength to compete in the long run. The China semiconductor industry is an example of that and that is why, in my opinion, they failed at FinFET manufacturing. Too much copying during the CMOS era that they missed out on innovating with FinFETs and now we are moving into the GAA era.
Seriously, collaborate, innovate and stop looking in your rearview mirror.
Remarks as delivered.
Christopher Wray
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Simi Valley, California
January 31, 2022
Well, thank you, John. And I have to say, I’m honored to be here with you at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The years of President Reagan’s 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.
I’m sure everyone here is familiar with President Reagan’s 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 off limits 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 FBI’s 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 Haisch-Edwards, Robert Zucca, and Derek Lyneis—for the great care you’ve taken in telling the FBI’s story. Thank you for the tour this afternoon, and thank you for showcasing our organization and our people—whom I’m 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 al Qaeda.” It’s not only catchy; it also captures the way the world has changed since the Bureau’s establishment back in 1908 and the way we’ve 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 didn’t make much that anyone in America wanted to buy. We didn’t invest in each other’s economies or send huge numbers of students to study in each other’s universities. The U.S. and today’s China are far more interconnected than the U.S. and the old U.S.S.R. ever were, and China is an economic power on a level the Soviets could never have dreamed of being.
The complexity of the threat posed by the Chinese government flows from those new realities, because China’s government has the global reach and presence of a great nation, but it refuses to act the part and too often uses its capabilities to steal and threaten, rather than to cooperate and build. That theft, those threats, are happening right here in America, literally every day.....
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Seriously, collaborate, innovate and stop looking in your rearview mirror.
Remarks as delivered.
Christopher Wray
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Simi Valley, California
January 31, 2022
Well, thank you, John. And I have to say, I’m honored to be here with you at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The years of President Reagan’s 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.
I’m sure everyone here is familiar with President Reagan’s 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 off limits 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 FBI’s 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 Haisch-Edwards, Robert Zucca, and Derek Lyneis—for the great care you’ve taken in telling the FBI’s story. Thank you for the tour this afternoon, and thank you for showcasing our organization and our people—whom I’m 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 al Qaeda.” It’s not only catchy; it also captures the way the world has changed since the Bureau’s establishment back in 1908 and the way we’ve 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 didn’t make much that anyone in America wanted to buy. We didn’t invest in each other’s economies or send huge numbers of students to study in each other’s universities. The U.S. and today’s China are far more interconnected than the U.S. and the old U.S.S.R. ever were, and China is an economic power on a level the Soviets could never have dreamed of being.
The complexity of the threat posed by the Chinese government flows from those new realities, because China’s government has the global reach and presence of a great nation, but it refuses to act the part and too often uses its capabilities to steal and threaten, rather than to cooperate and build. That theft, those threats, are happening right here in America, literally every day.....
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FBI Director Christopher Wray’s remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, California
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