Demers has been vocal criticizing the perceived China threat to American intellectual property, government secrets, and academic information. In December 2020, in an NPR interview, Demers warned the seriousness of the perceived China threat to the U.S., “We do see some other countries engaging episodically in economic espionage, but none of them on the scale and sophistication and persistence of the Chinese government.” As leader of the Department of Justice’s China Initiative, Demers spoke highly about the work in “educating the public” in terms of “economic espionage, theft of intellectual property and the university side.” Demers believes that the China Initiative still needs to educate the American public about Chinese foreign influence. Demers spoke about the hope that the Biden administration would support the effort to pursue the goal of “confronting malign Chinese behavior here in the U.S.” As Demers remains in his current position, it would be of interest to continue to track the work of the China Initiative under Demers.