U. S. Sen.  , Sherrod Brown , is introducing legislation to ban Internet-connected cars produced in or handled by , China , and another opponents from , U. S.  , regional security services and equipment near military bases and other national installations.
Brown’s claim is that the new electric vehicle technology includes apps, sensors, and cameras that should not be available to Chinese Communists.
” We ( Ohio ) are a national security state, we’re an aerospace state, we’re a manufacturing state”, Brown said in a phone call with reporters Wednesday. ” If one of their connected cars drive by , Wright Patt , ( Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ) or , NASA Glenn ( Research Center, near , Cleveland ) … the , Chinese Communist Party , could use a connected car to listen in to private conversations or transmit senstive data or gather intelligence”.
He also raised concerns about Chinese investors purchasing” sensitive land” like agricultural land close to American military installations.
” We know that the , Chinese Communist Party , runs an elaborate surveillance state on their own people, and that extends to surveillance as far as they can get away with”, said the senator, who is seeking reelection to a seat he first won in 2006. ” They steal trade secrets from , U. S.  , companies. And I’d say that both party presidents have sold American factories and workers.
He said , China , itself has banned , U. S. made, Internet-connected vehicles from locales near , Chinese People’s Liberation Army , sites.
” Ohio , has a number of federal installations that deal with the military”, said , Jeff Hoagland, president and chief executive of the , Dayton Development Coalition, which has long made protecting Wright-Patterson, the largest single-site employer in the state, its top priority. ” … Obviously, Wright-Patt is the biggest. It is at the forefront of developing military aerospace intelligence and aerospace technology development.
In the call, Hoagland pointed also to the presence of , Ohio National Guard , forces at , Rickenbacker International Airport , ( home of the 121st Air Refueling Wing ) near , Columbus , and the 179th Cyberspace Wing near , Mansfield, as well researchers at the NASA Glenn facility.
Michael Stumo, CEO of the , Coalition for a Prosperous America, which represents manufactuers and other American businesses, said , China , has been identified as an adversary of , the United States , in national intelligence estimates.
” We are in , China-shock 2.0″, Stumo said on Wednesday’s call. ” We saw what happened with , China-shock 1.0. America is finally beginning to react.
Brown has already called for a ban in the , U. S.  , on Chinese-made electric vehicles” to protect , Ohio , autoworkers, and to combat the economic and national security threats posed by Chinese automakers”.
He wrote to , President Biden , in April, saying:” Time and again, we have seen the Chinese government dump highly-subsidized goods into markets for the purpose of undermining domestic manufacturing. With this approach, the , Chinese Communist Party , is playing a long game — identifying critical emerging sectors, treating them as mechanisms for large-scale domestic employment”.
Brown did not provide any information regarding how a ban might be put in place. Stop this before cars are passing our road, the saying goes. The earlier they do this is better”.
” This is pre-empting a major problem”, he added.
A message seeking comment was sent to the , U. S. China Business Council, a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit association of more than 270 American companies that do business with , China.
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