Biden Admin Ends Trump-Era China Initiative in the Name of Political Correctness

While affirming that the threat of espionage from China is vast, the Biden administration has closed down the Justice Department's successful China Initiative to avoid even a hint of discrimination that might tarnish its image.

"The Chinese Communist Party's theft of sensitive information and technology isn't a rumor or a baseless accusation. It's very real, and it's part of a coordinated campaign by the Chinese government, which the China Initiative is helping to disrupt," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a 2020 statement on the DOJ website.

"I do believe that the China Initiative was driven by genuine national security concerns. But I'm also mindful that the department must maintain the trust of the people whom we serve," he said.

Biden Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen said that during his review of DOJ's China Initiative he "Never saw any indication" that any DOJ decisions were based on bias/prejudice, but the "Mere perception" of those things "Undermines our efforts" so he axed the effort anyway.

"There are real national security concerns. We're just saying that the China Initiative was the wrong way to address them."

The 2021 page on the DOJ website said, "About 80 percent of all economic espionage prosecutions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice allege conduct that would benefit the Chinese state, and there is at least some nexus to China in around 60 percent of all trade secret theft cases."

In the 2020 statement released by the DOJ, during the Trump administration, the Department noted "The PRC has used talent programs to encourage the transfer of technical expertise from the United States, and elsewhere in the world, to benefit the PRC's economic and military development. Talent recruits generally sign contracts with the PRC sponsor-entity that obligate them to produce scientific outputs; to publish the results of their work in the name of the PRC beneficiary; to allow the PRC beneficiary to assert intellectual property rights over their outputs and to recruit other researchers into the programs."
 

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-admin-ends-trump-era-china-initiative-name-political-correctness/