Current policies are headed in the right way, but additional measures are necessary in order to keep pace with how much China is stealing and carrying out influence activities in the U.S,” Heath said.
“I think that what we’re already finding is that this competition with China is going to be tough. “The China Initiative, I do think it’s necessary,” said Timothy Heath, a senior defense researcher for the Rand Corporation, a defense-focused think tank. Thus reforming the program is preferable to repealing it, they say. Though some groups have called for the wholesale abolition of the program, defense and security experts believe that the initiative is necessary to stem the tide of technology theft being perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is now believed that the Biden administration will pull back its efforts to target academic researchers as part of the program and reorient to focus more clearly on espionage-related cases. The news follows numerous allegations of racial discrimination and misconduct leveled by academics and civil rights advocacy groups.
The Department of Justice ( DOJ) is completing a review of its anti-espionage “ China Initiative,” which critics of the program hope will result in a shift away from its controversial targeting of academic researchers.
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