News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses the greatest espionage threat to the United States. Yet Chinese agents continue to obtain U.S. visas, and the Biden administration terminated the U.S. counterespionage program last month. A group of U.S. lawmakers has recently called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reinstate the China Initiative program to counter CCP espionage. On March 16, the DOJ charged five people with spying and harassing U.S. residents on behalf of China’s secret police. The defendants were part of a transnational repression program aimed at silencing outspoken critics of the CCP. These actions included interfering with federal elections, conspiring to undermine the U.S. congressional candidacy of an individual who was both a U.S. military veteran and a leader of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing, which led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre. All five defendants had ties to the CCP, while two worked directly for the …