Webinar | Paying the CCP to Open a Michigan Front: An Update on the Gotion Travesty

There is growing concern in states across the country that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is acquiring fertile farmland and other real estate nationwide. And rightly so. After all, as more than 110 Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) webinars have abundantly demonstrated over the past 18 months, the CCP is at war with America. Only those with a death wish or betraying our country can be indifferent to that reality.

Individuals who are actually enabling such acquisitions by our mortal enemy and the penetration they inevitably entail are especially deserving of critical scrutiny and corrective action. A prime example is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has made over $700 million in funding and various concessions available to subsidize the construction of a massive lithium battery manufacturing facility in the pristine heart of her state by Gotion, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of a militantly Chinese Communist Party company called Gotion High-Tech.

The CPDC will update its previous examination of this fraught initiative in the Committee’s next webinar from 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. ET on Friday, September 22nd. It will review the concerted efforts of patriotic Michiganders and their own and other Members of Congress to reverse Gov. Whitmer’s reckless decision.

A formidable panel assessed the dangers posed by this Chinese gambit and others like it to the environment, safety and security of both the immediately affected population and the nation as a whole.

This CPDC webinar also considered the failure to date of federal, state and local authorities to respond to official and popular demands for reviews of the likely environmental impact and the potential threats to a nearby National Guard facility (where Taiwanese troops are being trained) and an array of other possible targets. Finally, our panelists discussed some inspiring successes achieved by the resistance to Gotion’s penetration in Michigan and by efforts to block a similar CCP menace to Grand Forks, North Dakota and its strategic Air Force base.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, co-author, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World”

Panelists:

- Hon. John Moolenaar, U.S. Representative from Michigan, Member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, former Michigan State Senator and Representative – Topic: “An Overview and Congressional Perspective on the Dangers Inherent in Having a CCP Company in the American Heartland”

- Hon. Joseph Cella, former U.S. Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati and other Pacific Island nations – Topic: “Hard Lessons from the CCP’s Subversive and Suborning Influence Operations”

- Dr. Scott Powell, PhD., Senior Fellow, the Discovery Institute, author, Covert Cadre – Topic: “Good News: How One American Community Beat Back a Dangerous Chinese Communist Party Penetration Masquerading as a Business Investment”

- Ron Armstrong, President, Stand Up Michigan; Leader of Frontliners, a national coalition of grassroots activists – Topic: “What Patriotic Michiganders are Doing to Protect Their State and the Nation against the CCP’s Insidious Penetration – and the Help They Need Now”