Matthew Whitaker, who served as acting attorney general under the Trump administration, said the recently-terminated “China Initiative” program was not targeting Chinese Americans but rather the Chinese regime. “It is targeted specifically at the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] that has been destabilizing our country,” Whitaker said in an interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider” program at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 25. “Intellectual property theft is costing us hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars.” “China is not an honest partner on the world stage,” he added. “They’re just not and they shouldn’t be trusted.” The Department of Justice, which announced the China Initiative program in November 2018, wrote on its website (pdf) that the initiative was aimed at disrupting the Chinese regime’s “rob, replicate, and replace” strategy through “blatant and systematic theft” of American intellectual property. The agency said the initiative “reinforces [former] …