On July 8 2020, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that China regrets that U.S. foreign policy have been "kidnapped by FBI officials like Wray and other anti-China forces." The spokesperson added that Wray's words are "full of political lies in negligence of basic facts, exposing their deep-seated Cold-War mindset and ideological bias."

In the regular press conference, he urged certain U.S. officials to rectify their mistakes and stop issuing erroneous remarks on China, which undermine the two countries relationship.