Posted on 11/10/2021 7:21:29 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
As a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, businessman Jim Lamon has claimed that he will put America First and stand up to Communist China. But when it comes to his business practices, he clearly has no intention of putting his money where his mouth is. Fund Real News
Lamon has said that he will “defeat the Communist Party,” and that as a Senator, he will see to it “that goods coming into the U.S. are not made with cheap slave labor, unfettered environmental pollution, and unsafe working conditions.” He has even claimed that his own company, Depcom Power, focuses on buying “American First.”
“We don’t buy Chinese products,” Lamon said in May 2021. But the records tell a different story.
As recently as October of 2020, Depcom had imported several million kilograms of solar supplies from a Chinese company called HT Solar; accounting for just over three-fourths of all trade with Depcom. HT Solar is far and away Depcom’s largest trading partner. It is a subsidiary of HT-SAAE, which is entirely owned and operated by the Communist Chinese government, operating under the China Aerospace Science Technology Corporation (CASC), a government-owned enterprise that was first established in 1956. The National Pulse Podcast
In addition to exporting solar power supplies to international buyers such as Depcom, CASC specializes in the manufacturing of ballistic missiles, precision-guided bombs, and other large-scale weaponry. CASC’s marketing arm for missile technology is the China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC).
CPMIEC is currently under sanction by the U.S. government, forbidding all American citizens from doing business with them, after it was discovered that CPMIEC had been exporting ballistic missile technology to Iran and Pakistan. The broader umbrella of CASC was also the subject of sanctions during the Trump Administration, after President Trump determined that it had deep ties to the Chinese military.
On Lamon’s watch, Depcom has even taken legal action against several Chinese companies when it felt it was not provided with supplies that it was owed by such companies. Depcom filed a lawsuit in 2019 against Sunergy California LLC, a California-based subsidiary of China Sunergy Co., which is headquartered in Nanjing. Depcom ultimately reached a court judgment of $3.7 million, which was subsequently disputed; while the ruling was on appeal, Sunergy filed for bankruptcy in 2021.
But Lamon’s business dealings with China do not end there. Depcom has also done business with multiple Chinese companies that benefit from slave labor by Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region.
One example is Longi Green Energy Technology, one of several companies that is known to receive supplies from Daqo New Energy Group, which has been documented as profiting off of slave labor by Xinjiang’s Uyghurs. In addition to the human rights violations, Longi has direct ties to the Xinjiang Communist Party’s paramilitary wing, the XPCC.
Depcom was also directly involved in the construction of the Pawpaw solar plant in Georgia in 2015, a facility that utilizes over 137,000 solar modules acquired from Trina Solar. Trina is yet another Chinese company with ties to the XPCC and slave labor in Xinjiang. In another similar deal, Depcom was behind the construction of the 40MW Boise Solar Farm in Idaho in 2016. The Boise facility was provided with over 175,000 solar modules from Jinko Solar, a Chinese company that, like Trina and Longi, is connected to the XPCC and Uyghur slave labor.
With all of Lamon’s Chinese dealings over the years, it is no surprise that Lamon was openly critical of both President Trump’s tariffs against China and his skepticism of “green energy” alternatives. Lamon was prominently featured in a TIME magazine article in 2018 in which he lamented President Trump’s cracking down on trade with China, and admitted to lobbying the Trump Administration to rethink its approach to solar power and trade with China.
Lamon’s track record has indeed been consistent on this issue; but it is consistent in the complete opposite direction of an “America First” agenda. His empty campaign rhetoric should not overshadow his years of business deals with numerous Chinese companies, and his frequent vigorous defense of such transactions.
I guess he’s a crony Republican although I couldn’t find it in the article.
Looks like a Republican solar scammer.
If he was building them in Arizona that would be much more defensible even with the Chinese parts. We’ve stupid ceded that semiconductor product to China ! So you buy where you can get them.
Building a plan in Georgia is more scam then practical.
I take it that NOT listing a D or an R automatically makes him a Democrat
RINO crook. Thanks UMCRevMom@aol.com.
You can’t make this up. Apparently he thinks he can. Wikipedia doesn’t take him seriously enough to have a writeup. Unlikely to quick up traction. We’re on to them, not just the school boards in Va. One pic shows him with Kelli Ward. Maybe she’s off-putting too much. It’s on us my friends. I don’t know much about Masters(or JD Vance) but they don’t have a trail.
How many normal folk are in the international missile sales industry?
The Deep State isn’t even trying to hide their agents anymore.
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