Increased funding requests are evidence that the United States isn’t weakening its efforts to counter the Chinese espionage efforts, according to the testimony of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who appeared before the House Appropriations Committee on April 28.
The committee’s ranking member, Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), criticized Garland’s termination of the “China Initiative,” a Trump-era counter-espionage program, as a “baffling decision” and echoed comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was the greatest threat facing the United States.
