Rep. McCaul: Biden Admin’s Weakness Allowing China to Create ‘War Machine’

House Republicans lambasted the Biden administration for a perceived lack of action against growing hostilities from China’s reigning communist regime.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and several other Republican lawmakers said in a Sept. 8 press conference on the subject of China that a GOP-controlled Congress would do better in holding the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable.

McCaul singled out the administration’s decision to terminate Trump-era anti-espionage initiatives and an apparent failure to bring forth many high-profile charges in related lawsuits.

“They shut down the China initiative that the Trump administration started,” McCaul said.

“Guess what? Espionage hasn’t gone away.”

The China Initiative was an anti-espionage program headed by the Justice Department that sought to root out and prevent massive efforts by the CCP to steal research and technology.

The Biden administration terminated the program in February, citing concerns of racial discrimination against Asians. An internal DOJ investigation found no evidence of discrimination, but the department ended the program anyway, in order to avoid what it termed a “harmful perception” of bias.

McCaul said that the initiative had brought 130 indictments under the Trump administration, but said that since Biden took office, his administration had only brought charges against 19 suspects.

Meaningfully, the press conference took place near Houston, Texas, which was the focal point of an espionage episode in 2020, when it was discovered that the Chinese consulate there was coordinating a massive illegal spying ring as part of the CCP’s broader espionage campaign in the United States.

McCaul said that the research and technology stolen by that operation and others like it was used by the CCP to create advanced weapons, including a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that was launched last year.

Republicans have maintained that the CCP has been using stolen American technologies to manufacture advanced weapons for many years