It’s no secret to anyone paying attention to geo-political issues that China poses a grave threat not just to America but to the world order. Here in the U.S., we have paid especially close attention to China’s attempt at insurgency through espionage and economic warfare. At least we did before President Biden took office. We’re now seeing the impact of Biden’s politically-correct priorities, as his Department of Justice has decided to do away with a key line of defense we had against the Chinese Communist Party.

The Trump DOJ had launched the China Initiative as part of the administration’s comprehensive effort to confront the CCP. 

The program aimed to combat the whole slew of national security threats posed by China, focusing on countering and prosecuting its economic espionage, IP theft, hacking, and other efforts to infiltrate and exploit strategically significant American institutions.

The DOJ had brought dozens of cases under the Initiative, most notably prosecuting the former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, Dr. Charles Lieber, and the CFO of Huawei and daughter of its founder, Meng Wanzhou.

Given China’s penetration of America’s schools, research centers, and businesses, the initiative was long overdue. 

The reason the DOJ is dropping this crucial program is plainly obvious. Biden is bending the knee once again to the progressive wing of the Democratic party, which puts greater importance on niceties and PC behavior than on actually protecting America.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen essentially admitted this in a speech where he said, “We have heard concerns from the civil rights community that the ‘China Initiative’ fueled a narrative of intolerance and bias.”

It is patently absurd to kill a counter-intelligence program that guards against invasive actions from a country that has been proven to be working to undermine the United States, simply because the Woke left complains it could be racist.

But that is what President Biden has done. He has once again put the interests of the extremists in his party ahead of the best interests of the country.