A U.S. electric vehicle battery manufacturer with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has suspended its permit application to build a plant near a Michigan National Guard base following fierce opposition.
Chuck Thelen, CEO of Gotion Inc. — a “wholly owned and controlled” subsidiary of Chinese company Hefei Gotion High-Tech Power Energy Co. Ltd. (Gotion High-Tech) — said the decision stemmed from the firm’s ongoing breach of contract lawsuit against Green Charter Township, according to the Big Rapids Pioneer. The township soured on the $2.4 billion project in November 2023 after voters recalled numerous officials following a series of reports revealing Gotion and its Chinese parent company’s ties to the CCP.
“I applaud the people of Mecosta County as Gotion pauses their permitting process, but their fight is not over,” Republican Michigan Rep. John Moolenaar, chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Gotion must announce it will finally listen to the people, and end its projects for good.”
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Questions about Gotion’s CCP-ties began to arise around March 2023 when The Midwesterner reported Gotion High-Tech’s “Articles of Association” required the firm to establish a “Party organization and carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.”
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The House Select Committee on the CCP investigated Gotion High-Tech in 2024 and “found their supply chains are reliant on forced labor as part of the CCP’s ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang Province,” Mooleenaar told the DCNF.
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Meanwhile, Michigan residents — like Joseph Cella, the director of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group — engaged in grassroots activism to oppose the CCP-tied company. Cella served as the U.S. Ambassador to Fiji during the first Trump administration.
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“[They] refused to follow the directives given to state and local governments on dealings with China-based companies to exercise vigilance, conduct due diligence, and ensure transparency, integrity, and accountability are built into the partnership to guard against potential foreign government exploitation,” Cella said. “It is important that executive branch agencies, Congress, the Michigan Legislature, and citizens continue to scrutinize and investigate this ‘deal.’”
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Lmao what a shit conservative title. Practically seethes with nationalist zeal.
Its not about nationalism. Nobody would care if this was a Taiwan company. Communist China is a dictatorship that has killed tens if not hundreds of millions of Chinese. The current dictator was supposed to step down after 10 years but he didn’t do that.
Its not about nationalism.
Says the party that can’t stop squealing American First every chance they get. Cut the bullshit, nobody with half a brain cell left is falling for it.
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Saddam Hussein WMDsUyghur genocide story that the UN has already debunked. You know your country is doing well when it’s disappearing protestors off the street while desperately accusing other countries of doing what they themselves are doing to Palestine in full view of the world.Pretty soon just believing in the germ theory of medicine will be evidence of communism in this rapidly medieval-ifying shithole
Anti-CCP rhetoric from white rural conservatives is just patent racism washed with a political guise. Every business in China has “ties to the CCP.” That’s how it works over there
So much for autarky lmao
Every business in China has “ties to the CCP.” That’s how it works over there
Than that proves that China is extremely fucked up. What is the justification for the CCP to exist at all if it is going to manage a bunch of capitalist corporations? How come they haven’t dissolved the Communist Party since it serves no purpose except to enrich the dictators and elites?
Anti-CCP rhetoric from white rural conservatives is just patent racism
That makes no sense since there is no bias against the Republic of China on Taiwan.
This link shows that the CCP has literally caused the deaths of tens if not hundreds of millions of Chinese. Why the fuck would anybody NOT be “anti-CCP”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes
Than that proves that China is extremely fucked up. What is the justification for the CCP to exist at all if it is going to manage a bunch of capitalist corporations? How come they haven’t dissolved the Communist Party since it serves no purpose except to enrich the dictators and elites?
The exact same can be said about the US, Bozo
This is not anti-CCP rhetoric, the CCP’s influence on private businesses is a simple fact that isn’t even denied by the CCP.
For example, the party’s infiltration of the private sector gained momentum already after then-president Jiang Zemin called in the early 2000s for the CCP to represent “the advanced productive force” and welcome China’s emerging private entrepreneurs.
Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2014, the CCP’s influence on private businesses have intensified (with the disappearance of entrepreneur Jack Ma after he criticized the CCP supposedly being the most prominent case).
You’ll find ample evidence for the the systematic ways in which the Chinese party-state has been interfering in the private sector. So called “CCP branches” within private firms -meant as a potential lever of control, alongside regulatory tools - are a key of that effort. In recent years, the number of these “party units” has increased dramatically, and the CCP branches have strengthened their role in private companies’ management.
This is absolutely nationalist rhetoric from a conservative paper. Not only that, but the title is absolute nonsense. The CCP didn’t almost take over a town, and anyone who thinks they did is an idiot.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, they would love to control American towns, but they do not, nor have they come close to. You should be ashamed for even posting this tripe.
You’ll find ample evidence for the the systematic ways in which the Chinese party-state has been interfering in the private sector.
Good, they should do much more of that.
You’ll find ample evidence for the the systematic ways in which the Chinese party-state has been interfering in the private sector.
The only systematic interference I see in this article is big (small-town) government chasing away honest job creators purely on the basis of their radical anti-business ideology.
This comment here is a prime example of not having issues with any of the actual problematic aspects and is instead entirely fueled by “fear of the other”.
The #1 priority of any state is maintaining their power. I apologize for the highly reductionist argument but:
Within the USA the private sector is, de facto, the super-executive branch of the state. It has “systematic ways” that it “interferes” with what it’s supposed to be a “democratic” state. Sure there’s a couple hundred oligarchs who all have competing ideas and visions but they, generally, understand that #1 rule.
Within China the CCP is, de facto, the super-executive branch of the state. It has “systematic ways” that it “interferes” with what it’s supposed to be a “democratic” state. Sure there’s a couple hundred general committee members who all have competing ideas and visions but they, generally, understand that #1 rule.
Within the USA any attempts at pulling power out of the “private sector” is a direct threat and any ideas around a “strong public sector” are a direct threat which is meet with propaganda, repression and violence.
Within China any attempts at pulling power out of the “public sector” is a direct threat and any ideas around a “strong private sector” are a direct threat which is meet with propaganda, repression and violence.
If your argument is honestly one against repression then stop spreading USA propaganda. Everyone knows that’s how the CCP works. If you’re going to convince anybody you need to evaluate and explain why it works that way and why it’s a “problem”.
As an example, the Jack Ma example is a particularly salient one as it would be, imo, comparable to Elon Musk being disappeared not long after floating the idea of DOGE. However your attempt to invoke comparisons to protest movements in the US; IE Fred Hampton, the Furgeson 6, 2020 disappearances, Columbia U ICE raids etc. feels disingenuous to me. Could you expand on that?
The House Select Committee on the CCP investigated Gotion High-Tech in 2024 and “found their supply chains are reliant on forced labor as part of the CCP’s ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang Province,” Mooleenaar told the DCNF.
Reminder that the US has more people in its prison system than China, despite having a much smaller population.
Reminder, that we know of. China doesn’t really publish the numbers in any verifiable form. Nor are there any third parties really able to audit it.
Further even if what you say is true it doesn’t make what China is doing right.
It’s just not very credible. US police also kill and hospitalize more people than Chinese police. US politicians have no room to criticize any other country’s law enforcement.
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. They absolutely have every right to and often are right to. That doesn’t mean they’re not hypocritical at times. But just because someone is hypocritical doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
Unless they are a campist trying to deflect critique with a but somebody else might be worse claim.
You need to actually assess the motivations and credibility of the accusor, not just blindly accept the things they claim. This isn’t just a hypocrite, this is a politician with an agenda.
China exerts extreme control over businesses that operate from there. That’s a simple fact. This individuals motivations aren’t extremely relevant.
Might their motivations be alarmist? Perhaps. Might they be protectionist? There’s a very good chance. Xenophobic and bigoted. Knowing human nature the odds are good. How does any of that change the fact that the Chinese government has tight controls over all businesses within their border? Again that is a simple fact. And makes this concern not unwarranted. Let’s phrase it this way. Would you be defending a US state-controlled organization from doing similar in China? I doubt it.
Succesfuly defended citizens agaisnt employment
It’s amazing to me that people in this day and age still buy into this kind of McCarthyist nonsense. Imagine thinking that a party tasked with governing a nation of 1.4 billion people would be at all concerned about taking over a small town in the middle of nowhere to spy on the… Michigan National Guard? LOL
Lol
what a load of shit
Did they also eat the dogs or did they import fentanyl?
They missed out on an improvement in government.
