GOP pushes law reviving ‘CCP Initiative’ scuttled by Biden administration

Published April 12, 2022 5:28pm ET



Republicans are pushing for a new law that would revive the Justice Department’s China Initiative, which was scuttled by the Biden administration, and they are seeking to rebrand it as a “CCP Initiative” aimed squarely at the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

The DOJ announced in February that it would pull the plug on the 2018 initiative aimed at cracking down on China’s economic espionage following a year of criticism from fellow Democrats, hundreds of university professors, left-wing activists, and the CCP itself.

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