Source: United States Senator for Arkansas Tom Cotton
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353
February 23, 2022
Cotton Statement on DOJ Termination of Its “China Initiative”
Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after the Department of Justice announced the termination of its “China Initiative,” which was designed to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to spy on the United States and steal our intellectual property:
“The CCP has stolen trillions of dollars of American intellectual property, destroyed millions of American jobs, and turned students and researchers studying in the United States into foreign spies. Yet today, the Biden administration announced it’s cancelling the initiative tasked with combatting the Chinese government’s unprecedented domestic sabotage and aggression because they claim it’s racist. Cancelling this initiative is just another instance of weakness from an administration more concerned with being politically correct than protecting Americans. And you can be sure our adversaries are watching.”
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