Michael Turner: “The administration has gone out of its way actually to…”

“No. This administration has been very slow on the uptake to identify that, you know, adversaries self select. China has identified itself as an adversary. The administration has gone out of its way actually to dismantle things that were in place to try to hold China accountable. If you look at the Department of Justice, there was the China Initiative that was focusing on trying to find nefarious activities that China was doing, both cyber and otherwise within the United States.” (01:51–01:57)

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