• Gotion High-Tech, a China-based company operating Gotion, Inc., participates in two programs known for acquiring technology and conducting dual-use research for the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). did.
• Goshon is poised to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery parts manufacturing plant in the heartland of the United States, relatively close to U.S. military installations, with the help of subsidies paid by state and federal taxpayers.
• “The United States is now in a second Cold War with China. Federal and state governments should engage accordingly and provide a common defense,” said former U.S. ambassador and co-founder of the Michigan-China Coalition. said Joseph Serra. The Economic Security Review Group told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Chinese parent company of a US-based battery company has entered into two Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-backed programs to acquire dual-use technology and research, known to national security experts and the US government. According to documents reviewed by the paper, he was engaged in the same job. Daily Caller News Foundation.

According to DCNF's review of company documents, Gotion High-Tech participates in the 863 Program and the Torch Program, two initiatives aimed at acquiring advanced technology and research to support the People's Liberation Army. Identified. Gotion High-Tech owns his US-based Gotion, Inc., which is building large manufacturing facilities in Illinois and Michigan with generous taxpayer subsidies.

“The United States is now in a second Cold War with China. Federal and state governments should engage accordingly and provide a common defense,” said former U.S. ambassador and co-founder of the Michigan-China Coalition. said Joseph Serra. The Economic Security Review Group told DCNF. “The People's Republic of China and the Communist Party of China are engaged in an unrestricted war against the United States, and Program 863 and the Torch Project are in their arsenal.”

According to Gotion High-Tech, it was engaged in “three national '863' major projects” completed in 2015. Company Profile The company's website section and 2022 Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) report. (Related: Exclusive: Employees of Chinese company helping build US battery factory release video wearing Red Army costume and pledging life to the Chinese Communist Party)

2018 – Gotion High-Tech (parent company of Gotion Inc., which plans to build battery factories in Illinois and Michigan) creates a video and #CCP Members of Xi Jinping, CEO Li Zhen, and employees in military uniforms sing the nationalist song “Country” popularized by Jackie Chan.

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— Philip Lenchycki Cai Yue (@LenczyckiPhilip) September 18, 2023

One of the 863 program projects undertaken by the company is the development of a “complete industrial chain of lithium-ion batteries”, which began in 2013, according to the company's corporate profile. however,There are few specific details about the nature and purpose of the company's other two 863 Program projects.

The 863 program “focuses on both military and civilian science and technology” and aims to “accelerate the acquisition and development of science and technology around the world.” [People’s Republic of China],” according to To the report from the House Select Committee on the Communist Party of China. The program, launched in 1986, “provides funding and guidance for efforts to covertly obtain U.S. technology and sensitive economic information.” according to to the National Counterintelligence Enforcement Department.

The Chinese Communist Party spent about $800 million annually on the program from 2009 to 2013. according to Based on a 2019 report prepared by an independent research firm for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

State media Xinhua News Agency report 863 program is China's National Key Research and Development Program Although discontinued in 2016, the 863 program remained listed Until at least 2018, it will operate as an active and independent program on the website of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

Gotion High-Tech also joined the Chinese government's Torch Program in 2008, according to the company's company profile website and Gotion High-Tech Chairman Jen Li. biography On the 2016 US-China New Energy Economy Forum website.

One of the main objectives of the Torch program was to increase China's advanced technological capabilities by creating an “incubator and high-tech zone” similar to Silicon Valley. according to For a 2011 report prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, centra technologyan American company that “specializes in aerospace engineering issues and serves a wide range of customers with critical defense, intelligence, and security missions.”

Brandon said the program is “essentially an attempt by the Chinese state to direct money to industries that it believes can become the dominant power in the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” and to provide Western oversight of innovation. Weichert, a geopolitical analyst and national security expert, told DCNF that the external component focused on debilitation complements the internal aspects of the program.

“Whatever China can get commercially from the United States can be applied in a military context,” Weichert said, adding that given Pentagon policy, Gothion High-Tech's involvement in the torch program could be of particular concern, it added. schedule We plan to electrify non-tactical vehicles in the coming years.

Beyond Gotion High-Tech's partnership with these two programs, CCP officials established a recruiting “workstation” in 2017 at Gotion, Inc.'s Fremont, California, headquarters. This fact was first reported by the DCNF in September 2023. “Stationing” is a tactic used by Chinese Communist Party officials to recruit Western talent to work in mainland China.

Goshon's planned facilities near Manteno and Big Rapids will benefit from a large state and federal subsidy package, and if it reaches full capacity as planned, the Manteno plant alone will receive only the federal subsidy. It is expected to raise more than $7 billion. According to Good Jobs First, an organization that advocates for accountability and transparency in the use of public subsidies.

“The same pattern is being repeated here. In the case of Huawei, unable to sell to the big American carriers, small private parties around nuclear bases in the country's rural areas with independent cell phone companies “We pitched it to companies,” said John Persson, an adjunct researcher at the foundation. During his long career in the telecommunications industry, he has amassed extensive expertise in Chinese corporate espionage and leverage, and is a leading expert on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei's efforts to expand into the U.S. market. he told DCNF, referring to “They were able to deploy radio electronic equipment around the most sensitive military bases and were able to get federal grants to pay for it.”

“Following these recent revelations involving Gorshon, we urge all relevant Congressional committees, especially U.S. state and local governments, to protect Gorshon and his malign activities,” Serra told DCNF. I intend to appeal for an investigation into the matter.”

Chuck Sellen, Goshon's vice president of North American manufacturing, insisted that the Chinese Communist Party plays no role in Goshon or its operations, Politico reported. report.

However, Gotion Inc. is listed by the Department of Justice as the president of a Chinese foreign company. As of 2022, Gotion High-Tech employs 923 active members of the Chinese Communist Party, and in 2016 established a joint venture with a State Department-certified “Chinese Communist Party Military Company Subsidiary.”

JenHe was also quoted in the Illinois state newspaper as being a member of the Chinese Communist Party. press release, along with Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, announced the construction of the Manteno plant. Mr. Pritzker's office argued that concerns from local residents and Republican lawmakers about Goshon's ties to the Chinese Communist Party, through Goshon Hi-Tech, were stoked and akin to “xenophobia.”

Voters in Michigan's Green Charter Township ousted a number of local officials who promoted Goshon's efforts to set up shop in the area in the November election.

Neither Gotion, Inc. nor Gotion High-Tech responded to requests for comment.

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