Lawmakers Urge DHS to Blacklist Major Chinese Battery Companies

Five Republican lawmakers are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately blacklist two leading Chinese battery companies, on the basis that their supply chains are “deeply compromised” by the communist regime’s state-sponsored slave labor and Uyghur genocide. Led by Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the lawmakers sent two separate letters to Robert Silvers, DHS under secretary for strategy, policy, and plans, on June 5. They asked that the agency immediately put the Chinese firms CATL and Gotion High-Tech on an entity list created out of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)....