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Ron Johnson: “The China Initiative...was the Department of Justice…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 51:46

So from my standpoint, the way you discipline China is you need to get the rest of the trading world hanging together, cooperating and imposing rules on China. What we also ought to do is we ought to reinitiate The China Initiative...was the Department of Justice investigation program to try and track down and investigate Chinese theft of our intellectual property on universities. You know, why did President Biden cancel it? I have no idea. Idea. Could it be because he's compromised because of his son's business dealings with China? Might just be the case. (51:46–51:59)

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Asserts that the China Initiative was a DOJ program to investigate Chinese IP theft at universities.

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