House Passes Bills to Revive China Initiative at Justice Department

Renamed the ‘CCP Initiative,’ the program focuses on countering espionage by the Chinese Communist Party in both commercial and academic spheres.

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Sept. 9, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—The House has passed a bill to reestablish the China Initiative at the Department of Justice with an updated name, replacing “China” with “CCP”—China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Within the DOJ’s national security division, the revived program aims to curb the CCP’s commercial and academic espionage on critical technologies by prosecuting CCP agents who have been active on U.S. soil.