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September 5th 2011 18:55
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Washington, D.C. (August 26, 2011) Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) wrote to Jeffrey Immelt, C.E.O. of General Electric, who also heads President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness , requesting more information about GE apparent transfer of technology to China that was originally derived from U.S. taxpayer-funded research. A report in Monday Washington Post described the transfer of a virtual reality display system for airplane cockpits that G.E. is transferring to the Chinese as part of its joint venture with a Chinese state-owned company. The article states that this is -one of several- technologies that GE has passed on to China. Kucinich issued an earlier statement calling for Immelt to either resign or be removed from the President Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, citing Immelt conflict of interest, promoting jobs in China instead of the U.S.
The full text of the letter follows:
Send Mr Immelt your comments about this deal and copy President Obama
August 25, 2011
Mr. Jeffrey R. Immelt
President
General Electric Company
3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield, CT 06828-0001
Dear Mr. Immelt:
On August 23, 2011, The Washington Post reported that General Electric was providing a state-owned Chinese company with GE - synthetic vision - technology that allows aircraft to take off and land in zero-visibility situations. The Post also reported that this - synthetic vision - system was only - one of several highly valuable next-generation technologies that GE has developed  that the company has passed along to China as part of a joint venture with the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
This transfer of innovative technologies to China worries me greatly for reasons beyond the obvious national security concerns. The consequence of these technology transfers is the enabling of Chinese industry to produce high-tech products that would otherwise be produced in the United States by U.S. employees. Why are you causing the creation of these manufacturing jobs in China when you could be creating them in the United States? And why are you transferring technologies to China that will help the Chinese create jobs building aircraft that will compete with Boeing?
Furthermore, the NASA website explains that - synthetic vision is a technology created from NASA resources, technology, and NASA seed money in a - joint venture - with industry and university researches. How can you justify transferring to China a technology that was derived from US taxpayer-funded resources?
I would like to know what other - highly valuable next-generation technologies - you are transferring to China. Please send me a list of those technologies, along with a brief description of their purpose, and a detailed explanation of the extent to which which taxpayer-funded resources such as NASA made contributions to their development.
Sincerely,
/s/
Dennis J. Kucinich
Member of Congress
This comes at a time when GE CEO talks about reshoring some of our manufacturings due to American workers now being more competitive. This translates to American workers are now in the working poor class.
Washington, D.C. (August 26, 2011) Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) wrote to Jeffrey Immelt, C.E.O. of General Electric, who also heads President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness , requesting more information about GE apparent transfer of technology to China that was originally derived from U.S. taxpayer-funded research. A report in Monday Washington Post described the transfer of a virtual reality display system for airplane cockpits that G.E. is transferring to the Chinese as part of its joint venture with a Chinese state-owned company. The article states that this is -one of several- technologies that GE has passed on to China. Kucinich issued an earlier statement calling for Immelt to either resign or be removed from the President Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, citing Immelt conflict of interest, promoting jobs in China instead of the U.S.
The full text of the letter follows:
Send Mr Immelt your comments about this deal and copy President Obama
August 25, 2011
Mr. Jeffrey R. Immelt
President
General Electric Company
3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield, CT 06828-0001
Dear Mr. Immelt:
On August 23, 2011, The Washington Post reported that General Electric was providing a state-owned Chinese company with GE - synthetic vision - technology that allows aircraft to take off and land in zero-visibility situations. The Post also reported that this - synthetic vision - system was only - one of several highly valuable next-generation technologies that GE has developed  that the company has passed along to China as part of a joint venture with the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
This transfer of innovative technologies to China worries me greatly for reasons beyond the obvious national security concerns. The consequence of these technology transfers is the enabling of Chinese industry to produce high-tech products that would otherwise be produced in the United States by U.S. employees. Why are you causing the creation of these manufacturing jobs in China when you could be creating them in the United States? And why are you transferring technologies to China that will help the Chinese create jobs building aircraft that will compete with Boeing?
Furthermore, the NASA website explains that - synthetic vision is a technology created from NASA resources, technology, and NASA seed money in a - joint venture - with industry and university researches. How can you justify transferring to China a technology that was derived from US taxpayer-funded resources?
I would like to know what other - highly valuable next-generation technologies - you are transferring to China. Please send me a list of those technologies, along with a brief description of their purpose, and a detailed explanation of the extent to which which taxpayer-funded resources such as NASA made contributions to their development.
Sincerely,
/s/
Dennis J. Kucinich
Member of Congress
This comes at a time when GE CEO talks about reshoring some of our manufacturings due to American workers now being more competitive. This translates to American workers are now in the working poor class.
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