In a detailed 4-part article the U.S. online publication ProPublica on July 22 said that in April, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the FBI has over 2,000 active China-related investigations, with a 1,300% increase in economic espionage cases alone. He testified that the FBI opens a new investigation into China every 10 hours. FBI Deputy Assistant Director Bradley Benavides, Chief of the China branch of the Bureau’s Counterintelligence Division was reported saying the Chinese security personnel involved in Operation Fox Hunt are becoming increasingly brazen. He said, “They use pressure, leverage, threats against family, they use proxies." “Certainly, they are good at getting what they want.”

(Comment: Operation Fox Hunt, launched in 2014, and the program called Operation Sky Net claim to have caught more than 8,000 international fugitives. Both initiatives were launched under Xi Jinping)