President Joe Biden’s decision to dismantle a successful program aimed at curbing Chinese IP theft and espionage is a jaw-dropping betrayal of common sense and of U.S. interests.
My colleague Tom Rogan explains at greater length more of the details of why the decision is so counterproductive, accurately calling it “a triumph of manifestly delusional ‘wokeness’ over exigent needs of national security.” And as reported by the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olson said the “mere perception” that the so-called China Initiative was somehow driven by racial bias was reason enough to kill the program even though he saw no indication that bias had anything to do with it.
To abandon a crucial tool of national security because of an obviously mistaken “perception” is the epitome of leftist ideology run amuck. Never mind, as Dunleavy reported, that “numerous people have been convicted through the China Initiative,” which had targeted China’s “coordinated and multifaceted efforts to steal research and technology from the United States, with a particular focus on rooting out academics who concealed their ties to China.”
The mind reels. The genocidal Chinese communist government is, in a word, evil. It aims to dominate the world while encroaching on freedoms everywhere, including our own. Every tool in our box, whether legal, technological, intelligence-related, or military, should be on highest defensive alert against China’s predations. Instead, Biden weakens the U.S. ability to detect and counteract China’s malevolence.
With this decision, Biden surpasses former President Jimmy Carter in the annals of fecklessness, as the Chinese dragon inexorably widens its domain.
