Source: Antiwar.com
by Patrick Eddington
“On November 1, 2018 then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the launch of the ‘China Initiative’ – a whole-of-government effort ostensibly designed to thwart espionage and technology theft by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Chinese American groups and activists immediately denounced the program as racially biased and its investigations improperly predicated, and in 2021 two studies provided them with ample proof that their allegations were correct. The first was a study showing how rare it was for Chinese Americans to actually engage in espionage on behalf of the PRC. The second study chronicled the extremely high number of ‘China Initiative’ cases that resulted in acquittals or dismissed cases.” (11/21/24)