{"id":1131412,"date":"2021-12-18T22:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T03:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131412"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T03:49:38","slug":"house-republicans-demand-answers-on-commerce-secretary-raimondos-financial-ties-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-demand-answers-on-commerce-secretary-raimondos-financial-ties-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Demand Answers on Commerce Secretary Raimondo\u2019s Financial Ties to China\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-demand-answers-on-commerce-secretary-raimondos-financial-ties-to-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Raimondo-1013-Thumbnail-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Friday demanding answers about her family\u2019s financial ties to China following a report that her husband works for a tech company funded by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Free Beacon&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/commerce-secretarys-husband-is-top-executive-at-tech-firm-funded-by-chinese-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday that Secretary Raimondo\u2019s husband, Andy Moffit, is a top executive at artificial intelligence company PathAI. PathAI has received financial contributions from Danhua Capital, a California-based company that receives financial support from the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Reuters&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-china-techinvesting-insight\/chinas-penetration-of-silicon-valley-creates-risks-for-startups-idUSKBN1JP08V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in 2018 that Danhua Capital was established and funded by the Chinese government as part of its \u201cpenetration of Silicon Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/republicans-energycommerce.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021.12.17-Letter-to-Sec.-Raimondo-re-PathAI-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>As the Secretary of Commerce, an agency central to America\u2019s competition with China, particularly when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), this revelation is deeply concerning and raises significant questions about obvious conflicts of interest and our strategic interests to lead on AI.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Morgan Griffith (R-VA.), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) signed the letter to Raimondo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Republican representatives highlighted a recent&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-to-bar-investment-in-chinese-ai-giant-considers-banning-key-exports-to-top-chip-maker-11639092799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>&nbsp;that said, \u201cleaders at the Commerce Department remain opposed\u201d to adding more Chinese tech companies to the Treasury\u2019s list of banned U.S. investments.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Raimondo gave an&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-aims-to-strengthen-business-ties-with-china-11632475802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&nbsp;wherein she advocated for \u201crobust commercial engagement\u201d with China. In addition, she also opposed urging American companies to pull their advertising dollars out of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. \u201cWhat individual companies do is entirely up to them. We\u2019re not going to pressure them one way or another,\u201d Raimondo&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-12-09\/u-s-won-t-push-companies-to-pull-out-of-olympics-raimondo-says?srnd=premium&amp;sref=ohmtMHdW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans requested Raimondo answer a series of 11&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/republicans-energycommerce.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021.12.17-Letter-to-Sec.-Raimondo-re-PathAI-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questions<\/a>&nbsp;that aim to better understand the Secretary and her husband\u2019s ties to China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you or your staff contacted anyone on the National Economic Council regarding PathAI?\u201d one of the questions asked. \u201cHave you or your staff taken any meetings with any company or entity at the request of anyone from PathAI?\u201d another question asked.<\/p>\n<p>The three Republicans asked Raimodo if she agreed that the People\u2019s Republic of China poses a \u201chumanitarian, national security, and economic security threat to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also requested Raimodo outline the specific policies she has in place to ensure her husband or PathAI do not influence her or her staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Friday demanding answers about her family\u2019s financial ties to China following a report that her husband works for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}