We found some cases that aligned squarely with the stated purpose of the initiative, such as the indictments of hackers linked to Chinese state security who are believed to be behind the massive Equifax data breach, or the prosecution of a Taiwanese company and three individuals for stealing trade secrets from an American semiconductor company to benefit a Chinese state-owned enterprise.īut the review found that prosecutors increasingly focused on research integrity issues like grant fraud or “double-dipping”-seeking funding for the same research from both American and Chinese sources-even though most of the academics involved worked on foundational research intended to be published openly. Our investigation involved compiling and reviewing a list of cases known to be part of the initiative, based primarily on Justice Department press releases highlighting activities and successes-although the department’s lack of transparency made it impossible to pull together a complete list. And instead, the current threat landscape, demands a broader approach." Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen "While I remain focused on the evolving significant threat that China poses I have concluded that this initiative is not the right approach. The announcement followed months of confrontational rhetoric by Trump and administration officials that portrayed China as a threat requiring a “whole-of-society” response and cast all Chinese students in American universities as potential spies. But the China Initiative, announced by the Trump administration on November 1, 2018, was the first country-specific initiative in Justice Department history.
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