Air Force base.17 The incident sparked widespread concern that the wind farm could be used by China to harm the state’s energy grid or spy on or interfere with the air base.18 Alarmingly, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the deal, and the Trump Administration was reportedly planning to allow it to proceed, which it likely would have had the Texas state gove. [...] In just one widely reported incident, at least three federal departments and agencies—the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, and the Department of the Army—bought video surveillance equipment from a wholly owned subsidi- ary of Dahua Technology Company, one of the companies on the prohibited list, as recently as 2021.27 In addition to the prohibition on purchasing. [...] It also prohibits education institutions from participating in any agreement or accepting any grant from any entity controlled by a “foreign country of concern”— including China—that constrains the institution’s “freedom of contract,” allows the foreign country to direct or control the curriculum or values of the program, or promotes an agenda that is “detrimental to” the security of the U. [...] Blackrock in particular is infamous for its investments in Chinese 22 WHY STATE LEGISLATURES MUST CONFRONT CHINESE INFILTRATION companies closely linked to the CCP and involved in surveillance and other unethical endeavors.108 In December 2021, the nongovernmental organization Consumers’ Research sent letters to the governors of the 10 states whose pension funds have the most investments in Blackr. [...] Threat 4: Chinese Lobbying of State and Local Governments Lobbying is the most intractable of the issues outlined in this Special Report and is one of the factors making it so hard to pass legislation to tackle the other issues.
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