China Select Committee Chair Criticizes GM’s Deal With China’s CATL
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., said Aug. 11 that he’s disappointed General Motors will reportedly import electric vehicle batteries from China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), which the Defense Department placed on its Section 1260H list of Chinese military companies in January (see 2501060024).
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“American auto companies need to build secure, resilient supply chains that are not dependent on our nation’s largest adversary,” he wrote on X.
GM told The Wall Street Journal that the CATL arrangement is temporary and will last until it can stand up its own battery plant in the U.S. with a South Korean firm in about two years.