{"id":143870,"date":"2026-01-09T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143870"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:00:16","slug":"us-house-lawmakers-abandon-bid-to-bring-back-controversial-china-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143870","title":{"rendered":"US House lawmakers abandon bid to bring back controversial China Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFollowing months of opposition from the Asian-American community, US House lawmakers on Thursday removed a provision from a bill aimed at restarting the China Initiative, a programme that unfairly targeted Chinese-American researchers.<br \/>\nLast September, the proposal to \u201cdirect the re-establishment of the China Initiative\u201d was included as a measure to \u201ccounter China and maintain America\u2019s competitive edge\u201d in the financial year 2026 appropriations bill approved by the House Committee on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3339328\/us-house-lawmakers-abandon-bid-bring-back-controversial-china-initiative?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFollowing months of opposition from the Asian-American community, US House lawmakers on Thursday removed a provision from a bill aimed at restarting the China&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}