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Report accuses Michigan EV plant owner of promoting communist Chinese ideology to employees

September 2, 2023 | | Print Article

A disturbing report and video footage has been released showing a Chinese electric vehicle battery facility in Michigan having its employees bend the knee to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Video appears to show Gotion Inc. employees wearing Red Army uniforms and pledging to fight to the death for the communists. Gotion High-Tech, which is the company’s parent company, allegedly hosted numerous trips in 2021 to CCP revolutionary memorials in Anhui Province, China, according to records obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

During the sponsored trips, Gotion High-Tech employees donned Red Army outfits and pledged to “fight for communism to the end of my life.”

“I volunteer to join the CCP, uphold the Party’s platform, observe the provisions of the Party’s by-laws, carry out a member’s duties, carry out the Party’s decisions, strictly observe the Party’s discipline, be loyal to the Party, work hard, to fight for communism as long as I live, be ready at all times to sacrifice everything for the Party and people and never betray the Party,” the employees can be heard chanting during a trip to China’s Revolutionary Memorial Hall in July 2021.

Another trip was held to Dabie Mountain a month later to commemorate the CCP’s Long March. That celebrates the march that led to the rise and rule of the murderous Chinese dictator Mao Zedong in early 1935.

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The company is claiming its parent company did not fund the trips.

“Gotion High-Tech employees in China are involved with many clubs, including biking and hiking clubs, and one politically affiliated club,” a company official told Fox News Digital in an interview. “None of these clubs are financed by Gotion High-Tech, and some employees individually paid for field trips to historical sites in China out of their own pockets.”

“Gotion Inc. is headquartered in Fremont, California, and is not supervised, directed, controlled or financed by any foreign government or foreign political party,” they speciously declared. “Gotion Inc. does observe all American holidays and wishes everyone a wonderful Labor Day holiday this weekend.”

The communist-affiliated company operating in Michigan is extremely concerning and many feel its denials are hollow at best.

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“The revelation that Gotion’s parent company hosted CCP trips for its employees and conducted party pledges comes as its Michigan project continues to face heightened scrutiny from locals, national security experts, and Republican lawmakers,” Fox News reported.

“Opponents of the project have noted the company’s allegiance to the Chinese government and often pointed to Gotion High-Tech’s corporate bylaws, which state that the company is required to ‘carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China,'” the media outlet continued.

The company has declared its loyalty to communist China. There is no way Americans cannot view them as a national security threat.

Gotion Inc.’s 2022 ESG report notes that Gotion High-Tech “carried out thematic education activities such as the study of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, red theme education, and love for students,” according to The Midwesterner.

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Just as brazen is the fact that a Michigan law firm registered Gotion Inc. as a Chinese foreign principal earlier this year, according to FARA filings.

“Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that Gotion would invest $2.4 billion to construct two 550,000 square-foot production plants along with other supporting facilities spanning 260 acres in northern Michigan. She applauded the proposal in her late 2022 announcement, saying it would shore up Michigan’s status as the ‘global hub of mobility and electrification,'” Fox News wrote.

“Then, earlier this year, the Michigan State Senate Appropriations Committee gave the final stamp of approval for granting Gotion $175 million in direct taxpayer funding to help build the facility. In a 10-9 vote, some Democrats joined every Republican on the panel in voting against the funding, while only Democrats, including the committee’s chairwoman, voted in favor,” the media outlet added.

“I’m angry. I’m angry that this vote was slipped into the agenda today with as little information as possible so that people like me wouldn’t know it was happening,” Marjorie Steele, who is a local resident, charged during the hearing, according to Fox News. “I’m angry that you, our elected officials, have ignored my community’s pleas to table this vote until some small semblance of due diligence can be performed.”

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“I can promise you that we will not stop at the local level,” she vowed. “We are tired of being abused, and we are not alone. This is not just a Mecosta County issue. Townships and counties across the state are uniting, sharing resources, manpower, and grassroots activism. Your votes today, senators, are lines drawn in the sand.”

In August, Gotion announced that it had purchased approximately 270 acres of land in Green Charter Township, Michigan, for the EV project.

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