Biden Canceled Trump’s Program Identifying Chinese Threats Last February | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    In the wake of the reputed Chinese spy balloon that floated over U.S. military bases last week, it might be instructive to recall that last February, the Biden administration canceled a program launched by the Trump administration to identify Chinese threats to national security.

    Matt Olsen, the Biden administration's assistant attorney general in charge of the national security division, claimed that Asians had said the program was biased against them, saying, "We helped give rise to a harmful perception that the department applies a lower standard to investigate and prosecute criminal conduct related to that country or that we in some way view people with racial, ethnic, or family ties to China differently."

    "Make no mistake. We will be relentless in defending our country from China," he added.

    Only weeks before the Biden administration canceled the Trump program, FBI director Christopher Wray acknowledged that when he took his job in 2017 and examined the scope of Chinese theft of American technology, it "blew me away. And I'm not the kind of guy that uses words like 'blown away' easily."

    "There is no country that presents a broader, more severe threat to our innovation, our ideas and our economic security than China does," he added.

    "The scale of their hacking program, and the amount of personal and corporate data that their hackers have stolen, is greater than every other country combined," Wray concluded.

    The China Initiative was implemented by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2018. He noted, "From 2013 to 2016, the Department of Justice did not charge anyone with spying for China. ... Chinese economic espionage against the United States has been increasing-and it has been increasing rapidly. We are here today to say: enough is enough. We're not going to take it anymore."

    "Today, we see Chinese espionage not just taking place against traditional targets like our defense and intelligence agencies, but against targets like research labs and universities, and we see Chinese propaganda disseminated on our campuses. ... This Department of Justice-and the Trump administration-have already made our decision: we will not allow our sovereignty to be disrespected, our intellectual property to be stolen, or our people to be robbed of their hard-earned prosperity. We want fair trade and good relationships based on honest dealing. We will enforce our laws-and we will protect America's national interests."

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Among the many other lackluster performance standards by the Biden Administration - the most recent, allowing the Chinese Spy Balloon unfettered access to the skies above this Sovereign Republic - Joe Biden's foreign policy is considered by most true experts to be mediocre to abysmal at best. If one were to give a fair assessment of the quality of this apex duty of this Executive Branch: What would be your opinion of the Biden Administration's Foreign Policy initiatives and, or obvious faux pas?

  President Biden is a Foreign Policy expert of consummate skill just like his brother, Jim, and his son, Hunter.

  America's First Idiot President is corruptly committed to making the World far less safe, while surrendering OUR United States of America's sovereignty whenever, wherever possible.

  Mr. Biden is MY President because I pay close attention to only what rewards me, thus demanding as little sacrifice as is my nature to offer, or shrug.

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