Grassley blasts DOJ for dropping Trump's crackdown on Chinese espionage

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is the latest on Capitol Hill to criticize the Biden Department of Justice’s decision to end its Trump-era China Initiative, which had aimed to combat the growing national security threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Sen. Chuck Grassley joined a growing chorus of congressional Republicans blasting the move announced last week by Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, the head of the DOJ’s National Security Division. Olsen said he was shelving the effort directed at pushing back on China’s economic espionage following a year of criticism from some fellow Democrats, hundreds of university professors, some left-wing and Chinese American activists, and the CCP itself.