Attorney General Merrick Garland is under increasing pressure from academics across the country to end 'The China Initiative', a Department of Justice program formed in 2018. It is designed to confront Chinese espionage.
Protesters stood outside the Department of Justice this week, begging for an end to the 3-year-old program.
Garland, who has yet to make a decision, on Oct. 27 testified on Capitol Hill and spoke about Chinese government espionage. "Without open science and international collaboration, American science and technology can only suffer, and it causes brain drain," Jeremy Wu with Asian Pacific American Justice told Fox News.
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