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Moolenaar, Rubio want Chinese battery giant added to Pentagon blacklist

August 29, 2024 at 12:26 PM
The Defense Department should put a world-leading electric vehicle battery manufacturer based in China on a blacklist of companies that support the country’s military-civil fusion strategy, the chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, John Moolenaar (R-MI), and Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Marco Rubio (R-FL) said on Wednesday. China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) has licensing agreements with several U.S. automakers such as Tesla and Ford and is reportedly pursing an agreement with General...


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