Heads of the FBI and the MI5, the United Kingdom-equivalent, joined together on Wednesday to warn business leaders of espionage from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subverting the Western economy and national security.

FBI Director Christopher Wray and MI5 Director General Ken McCallum alarmed world-leading technology, research, and commercial business owners about the Chinese government’s long-term threat to Western investments’ economic and national security. They emphasized, however, that the Chinese people — at home and abroad — are victims of the Chinese government themselves.