Apply the Foreign Agents Registration Act to unregistered agents seeking to advance China’s political agenda, bringing enforcement actions when appropriate.Educate colleges and universities about potential threats to academic freedom and open discourse from influence efforts on campus.Develop an enforcement strategy concerning non-traditional collectors (e.g., researchers in labs, universities and the defense industrial base) that are being coopted into transferring technology contrary to U.S.Identify priority trade secret theft cases, ensure that investigations are adequately resourced, and work to bring them to fruition in a timely manner and according to the facts and applicable law.The Attorney General set the following goals for the Initiative: Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, FBI.Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division.Attorney, Northern District of California China Initiative Leadership and Steering Committee Members The China Initiative is led by the Department’s National Security Division (NSD), which is responsible for countering nation-state threats to the United States. In addition to identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage, the Initiative focuses on protecting our critical infrastructure against external threats through foreign direct investment and supply chain compromises, as well as combatting covert efforts to influence the American public and policymakers without proper transparency. In June 2018, the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy issued a report on “How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World,” documenting “the two major strategies and various acts, policies, and practices Chinese industrial policy uses in seeking to acquire the intellectual property and technologies of the world and to capture the emerging high- technology industries that will drive future economic growth.” It concluded, among other things, that a combination of China’s practices are unreasonable, including its outbound investment policies and sponsorship of unauthorized computer intrusions, and that “ range of tools may be appropriate to address these serious matters.” Trade Representative announced the results of an investigation of China’s trade practices under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. The Initiative was launched against the background of previous findings by the Administration concerning China’s practices. The Department of Justice’s China Initiative reflects the strategic priority of countering Chinese national security threats and reinforces the President’s overall national security strategy. Department of Justice (DOJ) allege conduct that would benefit the Chinese state, and there is at least some nexus to China in around 60 percent of all trade secret theft cases.
About 80 percent of all economic espionage prosecutions brought by the U.S.
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