According to Fox News, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (Republican) has questioned the Pentagon’s plans to purchase solar panels, stressing that they should not be made in Communist China.
Youngkin wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about the issue of how $104 million in taxpayer money was spent, the outlet reported. report Monday.
new: @GovernorVA Glenn Youngkin In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, he questioned the wisdom of the Pentagon’s plan to spend $104 million in taxpayer money to install Chinese Communist Party-made solar panels on the Pentagon’s roof. https://t.co/dlz2DM1cXQ
— Christian Martinez (@C_RMartinez) June 10, 2024
The article states:
The Virginia Republican told Austin he has “serious concerns” about plans to put solar panels on the roofs of the Pentagon and other military facilities, particularly since there is “no clear requirement that such panels must be manufactured in the United States using U.S. technology.”
“This decision has significant implications for the national security of the United States and raises questions about whether American taxpayer dollars should be used to purchase solar energy assets from our largest economic and geopolitical rival, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” the letter, seen by Fox News Digital, said.
In March 2023, the governor’s administration called on Fairfax County Public Schools to sever ties with Chinese Communist Party-linked organizations.
Breitbart News reported at the time that “Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology, an elite public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, has received more than $1 million from Chinese interests in exchange for helping develop a similar school in China.”
Alina Ampe, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, speaks to an Associated Press reporter in front of her school on Sept. 11, 2017. (Manuel Balce Senath/The Associated Press)
In 2021, Breitbart News was hit by a Chinese state-run Global Times It claimed that Uighurs and other ethnic minorities employed in solar panel factories in Xinjiang were working “of their own volition” and at competitive wages.
The allegations come amid allegations that the organisations were working under slave labour conditions.
Workers install solar panels on the roof of a factory at the Small and Medium Enterprise Park in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, on July 5, 2022. (VCG/VCG via Getty)
In August 2023, Breitbart News reported that “The Commerce Department has again found that Chinese solar manufacturers are evading U.S. tariffs by diverting their supply chains through four Asian countries.”
“The findings come after President Joe Biden protected Chinese companies with a 24-month suspension of tariffs,” the article states.
