A group of five Republican senators issued a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on March 24, pleading that he formally recognize and reprioritize the threat posed to national security by the Chinese communist regime’s efforts to conduct espionage against the United States. The senators, led by Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), wrote that the United States may not be able to effectively combat the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts at international repression, due to the Biden administration’s recent decision to terminate the Justice Department’s (DOJ) “China Initiative,” a Trump-era anti-espionage campaign. “Despite this critical moment and the high stakes, DOJ chose to disband its China Initiative in favor of a vague ‘Strategy for Countering Nation-State Threats’ that appears to equate the unique and extensive threats from the CCP with those of other nation-state threats,” the senators wrote. “What concrete policies and actions will emerge from this strategy, and their adequacy …