A group of Republican senators sent a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday criticizing the Department of Justice’s decision last month to shutter its controversial China Initiative. The three-page note called on the DoJ to “recognize and reprioritize” the threat posed by the Chinese government to US national security, emphasizing the need to combat the theft of trade secrets concerning artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum computing, robotics, 6G, and other emerging technologies. Late last month, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Matthew Olsen announced that the DoJ was ending the Trump-era initiative , saying that it…