WASHINGTON—House Committee on Homeland Security Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said he expects to see a revival of the “China initiative” under the new administration.
“Yes, I think you’ll see that,” Green said when asked about the return of the initiative at a Hudson Institute think tank event on Dec. 17.
“We’re in a conflict with China on multiple levels, and too many people are asleep at the wheel.”
Launched during the first Trump administration, the Justice Department’s China initiative began in late 2018 and was terminated in early 2022.
The initiative targeted Chinese spies after the United States determined that there was large-scale, widespread theft of American intellectual property by China. The theft coincided with several tariffs the Trump administration imposed on Chinese imports….