Bipartisan Agreement: Gotion Partner Busted for Assisting Genocide, Using Slave Labor
Congressman John Moolenaar is once again calling for the state and local officials in Michigan to stop the Gotion project in Mecosta County. His newest call comes after Volkswagen, a co-owner of Gotion Inc., received bipartisan Congressional backlash for participating in the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide and forced labor of religious minorities in China.
“For months, Gotion supporters have argued that one reason Gotion Inc. should be allowed to build in Mecosta County is because part of the company is owned by Volkswagen. Now we know that Volkswagen has helped the CCP carry out the deadly persecution of religious people in China. This news is another example of how CCP-affiliated companies can be coerced into doing the bidding of the CCP and is further evidence of why it would be a mistake to allow Gotion to build a facility in Michigan. These companies have participated in genocide, and state and local officials should end the Gotion project in Michigan immediately,” said Moolenaar.
On Thursday, House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) sent a letter to Volkswagen CEO David Bume demanding his company cease operations in Xinjiang, a province of China, where the CCP has been engaged in a multi-year genocide of Uyghur Muslims.
“In 2013, Volkswagen opened a factory in Xinjiang as a joint venture with the PRC state-owned SAIC Motor Co. Ltd. (SAIC). The factory continues to operate to this day, and it is understood to employ roughly 200 people. According to a recent open-source report, Volkswagen used forcibly transferred Uyghur laborers to build and manage various aspects of the facility. Volkswagen also reportedly employed Uyghur laborers that were subject to PRC state-sponsored “poverty alleviation campaigns." According to the U.S. government’s Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory, labor transfers and affiliations with “poverty alleviation campaigns” are both warning signs of PRC state-sponsored forced labor.
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“We urge Volkswagen to cease its operations in Xinjiang, where the U.S. government has determined that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is conducting an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities."