EXCLUSIVE — House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) has requested a briefing from a top Treasury Department panel on its move to approve a China-linked green energy firm's electric vehicle battery plant project.
National security experts and Republicans are raising concerns over how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews transactions involving overseas entities, approved the California-based Gotion, the parent company of which, Gotion High-Tech Power Energy, is based in China, for a $2.4 billion EV battery plant project in Big Rapids, Michigan.
Like Ford, Gotion's project is supported by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer , who said in October that the California-based company would construct two 550,000-square-foot production plants along with other supporting facilities in northern Michigan. In April, Michigan's state Senate Appropriations Committee approved Gotion to obtain $175 million in taxpayer dollars for its project, which CFIUS greenlighted in June following a national security review.
Gotion High-Tech, which, according to a Foreign Agents Registration Act filing,"wholly" controls Gotion and is headquartered in Hefei City, China, formed a Chinese Communist Party branch in 2010, followed by a 2014 CCP committee, the Daily Caller reported. The Chinese firm has also employed 923 CCP members, including CEO Li Zhen, the committee's party secretary, the outlet reported.
The Gotion project in Michigan is particularly notable, given one of the proposed facilities will reportedly be located within 100 miles of Camp Grayling, the largest National Guard training facility in the United States, which, on an annual basis, sees Michigan's National Guard training a portion of the military in Taiwan, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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