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Rogers Wants Briefing About Planned Factory With Alleged Chinese Ties Near KCNSC

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024

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Rogers Wants Briefing About Planned Factory With Alleged Chinese Ties Near KCNSC

A U.S. Senator asked Tuesday if a planned manufacturing plant in Kansas poses a threat to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nearby factory in Missouri for non-nuclear nuclear-weapon components. The conservative publication Daily Caller in December reported that Cnano Technology USA Inc., a company the publication said has ties to Chinese businesses, planned to build a battery material factory in Johnson County, Kansas. In a letter published Wednesday on his website Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) asked the Department of Defense…

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