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"Chinese law requires any organization with three or more CCP members to set up a party cell. Given that the CCP has 96 million members and is disproportionately represented in elite business circles, there are likely few well-known companies operating in China to which this requirement doesn’t apply. 

 While this rule is mainly used to ensure CCP oversight of Chinese firms, Xi Jinping’s government has pushed, since at least 2016, more subsidiaries of foreign companies to comply. In 2018, it started requiring all companies publicly listed in China—including foreign joint ventures—to establish party cells. "

"Wray and other government officials are testifying in front of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party for a hearing titled 'The Chinese Community Party Cyber Threat to the American Homeland and National Security.'

'There has been far too little public focus on the fact that PRC [People’s Republic of China] hackers are targeting our critical infrastructure – our water treatment plants, our electrical grid, our oil and natural gas pipelines, our transportation systems.'"

"Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told lawmakers that a proposed electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan could be used for Chinese espionage. 

 'I don't think there's any question that they're going to take advantage of that situation,' Panetta remarked. 'And I think we have to be very vigilant about what the hell is going on. That's just the way they operate. They'll establish a manufacturing unit, they'll establish whatever they can, and then they will use that for their own intelligence purposes.'" 

"Residents of Manteno, Illinois were outraged when they found out local and state officials had finalized a deal with a Chinese Communist Party-linked company to construct an electric vehicle battery “gigafactory” in their town."

"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 chanted...

"China is requiring U.S. and other foreign-owned companies to host groups that monitor their compliance with Chinese Communist Party orthodoxy, FBI Director Christopher Wray said in congressional testimony Wednesday."

"The FBI is investigating an unauthorized “police station” that China is running out of New York as part of a global network of such outposts, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday, vowing to put a stop to Beijing’s law enforcement activity in the United States."

 "US Customs and Border Protection seized a shipment last week from LONGi Green Energy Technology, the world’s largest maker of solar panels, under a law prohibiting foreign imports manufactured using forced labor, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday." 

"[They] penned a letter late Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, urging her to take action to prevent companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from expanding operations on U.S. soil with the help of taxpayer dollars." 

"Work on a sprawling solar park in Kenosha County’s town of Paris is on hold as federal investigators try to determine whether solar panels purchased for the project were made with forced labor."

"The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official."

"The U.S. has had anti-dumping tariffs in place on Chinese solar products for more than a decade after a previous probe by the DOC found the Chinese companies were receiving unfair government subsidies."