Wray declared, “We’re going to follow the facts and the law wherever they lead. We are not going to engage in profiling by ethnicity or national origin, and we haven’t. And we’re going to work jointly with universities. In many cases, that’s one of the most effective ways to prevent stealing of research, which is in the hands of our universities.”
Throughout an address on the China Initiative coming to an end in February 2022, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen stated, “We have heard concerns from the civil rights community that the ‘China Initiative’ fueled a narrative of intolerance and bias. To many, that narrative suggests that the Justice Department treats people from China or of Chinese descent differently. The rise in anti-Asian hate crime and hate incidents only heightens these concerns.”
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“It is very unusual because you normally don’t see heads of spy agencies delivering joint statements. Intel people cannot do that on their own; it must come from above. It's a political decision made in Washington and London, which means it's an important diplomatic stance,” said Zeno Leoni, a specialist in Chinese defense and Sino-Western affairs at King’s College London.
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For Leoni, "there is a momentum in favour of Washington’s position because of the war in Ukraine". How are the Russian attack and the Chinese threat-related? "US allies, especially in continental Europe, tend to be less hawkish toward China, but because of the war they might see the threat of regimes like Russia or China, [which] stood by Putin, more according to Washington's view."
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There is, therefore, a new dynamic that Washington and London meant to exploit as fast as possible. They chose to hit hard with the public statement from two intelligence heads. The joint declaration reads like a laundry list of ways in which Chinese spies are pillaging Western know-how and imperiling democracy.
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The description is anxiety-provoking, giving an impression of Chinese spies creeping on every street corner. One instance has them hiding among our crops, stealing GMO samples to appropriate their technology. FBI Director Christopher Wray said that Chinese agents have been caught “out in the US heartland, sneaking into fields to dig up proprietary, genetically modified seeds, which would have cost them nearly a decade and billions in research to develop themselves”.
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