A Chinese company once found guilty of stealing information from a U.S. company that manufactures airplane boarding bridges is making a fresh push into American airport markets — and becoming the newest target for anti-China hawks in Congress
In March, Tianda hired a lobbyist who had recently stepped down from the federal Department of Transportation, where he was a senior official, according to a Senate. The lobbyist, Anthony Bedell, was deputy assistant secretary for congressional affairs at DOT from May 2017 to November 2019.
“CIMC-Tianda USA is a Delaware corporation. It was formed in 2017 … to manufacture passenger boarding bridges in the U.S. under the license and IP wholly owned by CIMC-Tianda, a Hong Kong company,” Jasin said in an interview with POLITICO. “It does not receive any funding or support from the Chinese government.”contends that myriad security threats would be created by allowing a Chinese company to build boarding bridges in the United States.
Legislative efforts to box out Chinese companies have become commonplace in many sectors, but transportation in particular has seen a number of battles spring up lately. The battle lines are usually similar — security concerns — and have focused on Chinese companies that manufacture everything from drones to railcars and buses.
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