Republicans and Democrats have rung alarm bells for years about Beijing’s efforts to infiltrate America’s industrial base, warning not just about the threats of espionage and sabotage that follow their investment, but also of the human rights abuses linked to Chinese companies.

Just last month, Reuters reported that rogue cellular radios and communications devices were found in Chinese batteries, electric vehicle chargers and solar panels that are already in the U.S.

Despite those warnings, China, with help from the Biden administration, Democratic governors and members of Congress, has established footholds in America’s emerging electric vehicle battery sector.

Gotion, a company with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party, has begun building plants in Michigan and Illinois despite strong local pushback. Last year, President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the Gotion plants “would put Michiganders under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.”

CATL — a company designated by the Pentagon as a “Chinese military company” — is working with Ford in Michigan, and also has........

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