China is threatening the West more brazenly than ever before, said FBI Director Christopher Wray.

He accused Beijing of stealing American ideas and innovations and conducting large-scale hacking operations, AP reported.

"When we tally up what we see in our investigations, over 2,000 of which are focused on the Chinese government trying to steal our information or technology, there's just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, innovation, and economic security than China," Wray said, according to a copy of the speech provided by the FBI.

"The harm from the Chinese government's economic espionage isn't just that its companies pull ahead based on illegally gotten technology. While they pull ahead, they push our companies and workers behind," Wray said. "That harm — company failures, job losses — has been building for a decade to the crush we feel today. It's harm felt across the country, by workers in a whole range of industries."