America’s enemies aren’t going to take us down with military might. The battle is going to be from within.
And now the Chinese infiltration of America was exposed and the situation is dire.
Democrats’ Green Darling: Canadian Solar’s Deep China Roots
Two prominent North American solar players — one enthusiastically celebrated by Senate Democrats just two years ago — are now drawing fresh attention for their extensive connections to the People’s Republic of China. Even as Washington erects trade barriers to block direct Chinese imports, Beijing-linked firms have cleverly shifted production to U.S. or Canadian soil, securing American taxpayer subsidies and often favorable media treatment in the process.
When President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, Senate Democrats hailed it as a game-changer for domestic clean energy. Among the companies they spotlighted was Canadian Solar, an Ontario-headquartered giant founded by Chinese entrepreneur Qu Xiaohua (Shawn Qu) and whose primary operating subsidiary is listed on Shanghai’s STAR Market.
“The Inflation Reduction Act is already paying huge dividends for the American people,” blared a topline from Senate Democrats in 2023.
The same press release cheered a Reuters report that Canadian Solar planned to pour $250 million into a 5 GW solar-module factory in Mesquite, Texas. Trina Solar North America president Steven Zhu later told the CCP-owned China Daily that the investment represents “a significant investment in American manufacturing that will bolster the U.S. solar market in addition to positioning Texas as a leader in the transition to a sustainable future.”
A 2025 SEC filing from Canadian Solar bluntly warns investors that, because of its heavy operations inside China, the Chinese Communist Party “may intervene or influence the operations of our PRC subsidiaries at any time” and that the company remains “exposed to legal and operational risks associated with having a significant portion of our manufacturing operations in China.” At the start of 2025, roughly 12,000 of the company’s 18,000 employees were still based in mainland China.
Congressional Pushback Against CCP-Linked Subsidies
Lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill are sounding the alarm. House Select Committee on the CCP chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) has repeatedly warned that Biden’s IRA is funneling billions in tax credits to companies effectively controlled from Beijing.
Moolenaar’s “No Gotion Act” would bar any IRA subsidies from flowing to entities headquartered in China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran. He also slipped language into the 2024 Energy Department funding bill prohibiting contracts with firms tied to the Chinese Communist Party.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), who fled communist Cuba as a child, argues the U.S. cannot keep “ceding dominance over our critical supply chains to our greatest geopolitical rival.” Doing business inside China, he says, guarantees the CCP takes a cut — “a steep cost” the West has been slow to recognize, as seen with Huawei and TikTok.
The Trina-to-T1 Rebranding Shell Game
Another high-profile case involves Trina Solar’s Texas operations. In 2024, Trina sold its U.S. manufacturing assets to a newly created entity now called T1 Energy — a move that conveniently rebrands a Chinese-controlled supply chain as “American.”
Trina founder Gao Jifan is a delegate to China’s National People’s Congress and has held leadership roles in CCP-supervised trade and technology organizations. Baidu’s profile on Gao notes he invested in the Texas factory explicitly “to prevent the shipment of photovoltaic products from being blocked” by U.S. tariffs.
Today T1 Energy markets itself as “building domestic solar and battery supply chains to invigorate America with scalable, reliable, and low-cost energy” and brags that its robots recently churned out 14 MW of panels in a single day — “the path to American power.” Yet Trina still owns 16–25 % of T1, securing at least two board seats, including one reportedly held by a former deputy director of China’s state-owned Development Bank, a key financier of the Belt and Road Initiative.
A separate Caribbean entity linked to a Trina executive’s wife also holds equity, adding another layer of opacity. Because T1 is legally a U.S. company, it qualifies for generous IRA tax credits — meaning American taxpayers are effectively subsidizing a supply chain that remains tethered to massive Chinese government support.
Critics describe both Canadian Solar and the Trina/T1 structure as sophisticated geopolitical camouflage: Chinese giants keep equity stakes just below the threshold that would trigger “Foreign Entity of Concern” restrictions, localize a fraction of assembly in North America, and reap hundreds of billions in Western subsidies originally intended to counter Beijing’s dominance.
Fox News Digital reached out to Canadian Solar, Trina Solar, and T1 Energy for comment.
