A group of five Republican senators is urging U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to formally recognize and reprioritize the threat posed to national security by the Chinese communist regime’s efforts to conduct espionage against the United States.
The senators, led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), told Garland in a March 24 letter that the United States may not be able to effectively combat the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts at international repression because of the Biden administration’s recent decision to terminate the Justice Department’s (DOJ) “China Initiative,” a Trump-era anti-espionage campaign.
