About the bill
Should the Justice Department have a program to counter Chinese espionage specifically?
Context
In 2018, President Donald Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new Justice Department initiative to investigate and tackle Chinese espionage. Nicknamed the China Initiative, its primary focuses included Chinese hacking, spying, stealing of American technology, and trade theft.
Supporters argue such a program is actually more relevant now than it was then, given such 2020s events as the Chinese spy balloon that floated over America for several days in January and February 2023, and rising concerns over potential surveillance of Americans through popular Chinese-based apps like TikTok.
However, Biden’s Justice Department ended the program in 2022. They insisted that they would still tackle such issues as trade theft and hacking globally, just without a China-specific …
Sponsor and status
118th Congress (2023–2025)
Introduced on Feb 16, 2023
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2 Cosponsors (2 Republicans)
Position statements
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