Gooden to roll out measure to reestablish DOJ's Trump-era 'China Initiative'
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep. Lance Gooden is introducing a measure Tuesday that would reestablish the shuttered Trump-era “China Initiative” program in the Justice Department, Fox News Digital has learned.
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The legislation would re-establish the CCP Initiative Program in the Justice Department, which was started in 2018 under the Trump administration to protect U.S. national security against Chinese spying on U.S. intellectual property and in academia.
The program was aimed at "identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage," as well as "protecting our critical infrastructure against external threats through foreign direct investment and supply chain compromises."