DOJ’s Halt to Program Targeting CCP Espionage a Show of ‘Weakness’: Sen. Cotton

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) speaks during a hearing to examine United States Special Operations Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 25, 2021. Andrew Harnik/Pool/Getty Images

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent decision to scrap the “China Initiative,“ a Trump-era effort to thwart economic espionage by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is ”another instance of weakness” by the Biden administration, a U.S. senator says.

“The CCP has stolen trillions of dollars of American intellectual property, destroyed millions of American jobs, and turned students and researchers studying in the United States into foreign spies,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a Feb. 23 statement.