Republican investigators in the House have released plans for Ford EV division in Michigan to bring onsite 4 Chinese military contractors with ties to North Korea.
“Our intelligence agencies have discovered that the CCP has hacked into American infrastructure for the sole purpose of disabling & destroying…
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) January 31, 2024
This is the cyberspace equivalent of placing bombs on American bridges, water facilities, and power plants.” — Chairman @RepGallagher pic.twitter.com/MQDD49vs5f
Ford Motor Company is planning to contract technology and software from at least four Chinese firms that supply similar services to the Chinese government and military, and the North Korean government, according to contracts obtained by Republican investigators.
The revelations — which were released Monday by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., the chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. — are part of the GOP's ongoing joint investigation into Ford's partnership with Fujian, China-based electric vehicle (EV) battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL).
According to the Republican leaders, they recently reviewed portions of Ford’s signed agreements with CATL. Those documents revealed the four Chinese firms in question "will be intimately involved" in the design, construction, and information technology processes for a proposed EV battery factory Ford is building in Marshall, Michigan, with services provided by CATL.
"It is indefensible for Ford to use the same cloud integration and data provider that is linked to North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs sanctions evasion activity," Gallagher and McMorris Rodgers wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week.
Source: Fox News
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