5 In announcing the initiative, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions remarked that "Chinese economic espionage against the United States has been increasing-and it has been increasing rapidly.
#Crackdown economic espionage mess series#
The 2018 launch of the China Initiative followed a series of federal government reports and investigations regarding China’s trade practices, including its alleged efforts to steal American intellectual property.
The Origin & Development of the China Initiative It appears more likely that, as predicted in our OnPoint in December 2021, 4 the Department will continue to advance the more serious work of the Initiative (such as economic espionage, trade secret theft, and national security threats), while abandoning technical, regulatory violations as well the Initiative’s name, both of which were subject to frequent and understandable criticism. 1 At the same time, however, the DOJ reiterated its commitment to "prioritize and aggressively counter the actions of the government that harm our people and our institutions." 2 Thus, although some commentators have suggested that the China Initiative "is dead," 3 we disagree. On February 23, 2022, the Department of Justice announced that it would no longer be grouping cases under the "China Initiative" rubric, citing the "harmful perception" of racial or ethnic bias the use of that nomenclature had potentially created.
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