Webinar | No Go on Gotion! Whitmer Pays the CCP to Wage Economic Warfare Against Us
A Case Study in Chinese State-level Elite Capture and Subversive Influence Operations
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s outrageous plan to give the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doing business as Gotion High-Tech Co., Ltd., $715 million in taxpayer subsidies to build an electric vehicle battery plant near Big Rapids, Michigan is finally encountering the kind of resistance it deserves. This is but the latest example of the CCP’s efforts to penetrate and subvert America at the state-level with influence operations aimed at governors.
Despite a strong warning to the National Governors Association in February 2020 by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo concerning the CCP’s targeting of states and localities, Gov. Whitmer, members of the Michigan legislature, local officials and their counterparts in several other states have been seduced by the prospect of Chinese investment, jobs and technology to open the doors to what are, in fact, CCP Trojan Horses. Typically, such promises are unfulfilled and the CCP is, instead, the beneficiary in all three respects.
In the case of Gotion, the direct role of the Chinese Communist Party in the company, its management and operations is a matter of record. For example, Gotion’s Articles of Association establish that:
The Company shall set up a Party organization and carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China. The Company shall ensure necessary conditions for carrying out Party activities. The secretary of the Party shall be the chairman….
The Party Committee of the Company shall perform its duties in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China and other Party regulations,” including, “Ensure and supervise the implementation of the Party’s guidelines, principles and policies in the Company, and implement major strategic decisions of the CPC (Communist Party of China) Central Committee and the State Council as well as relevant important work arrangements of the Party organization at the higher level.
The fact that such a company is allowed to operate anywhere in the United States is unconscionable. The idea that Michigan or any other American taxpayers would be subsidizing its operations here adds insult to the prospectively huge injury. It should be obvious to the Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) in the United States that national security considerations demand this CCP Trojan Horse be blocked immediately.
Moderator:
- Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China
Panelists:
- Hon. Pete Hoekstra, former Member of Congress and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands; Chairman, Center for Security Policy Advisory Board
Topic: “CFIUS Must Do Its Job: No Go on Gotion” (via video)
- Ron Armstrong, President, Stand Up Michigan
Topic: “The Grassroots in Michigan: Don’t Subsidize the CCP’s Penetration of America”
- Dr. Ormand Hook, Ed.D, Educational psychologist, military veteran, Michigan activist against Gotion penetration
Topic: “Not with Our Money: Block the Gotion Deal”
- Lori Brock, Owner, Majestic Frisian’s Horse Farm, Big Rapids, Michigan, patriot, opponent of the Gotion deal
Topic: “An American Citizen’s Appeal for No Go on Gotion”
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