Ford Motor Company is planning to contract technology from several Chinese companies that work for the China’s communist government and military, as well as the North Korean government. ...

Ford has come under intense scrutiny for months over its partnership with Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL). The scrutiny comes as Ford has lost billions of dollars on trying to produce electric vehicles and recently had to announce that they were cutting back the employees manufacturing the electric vehicles because the demand for them is so low that Ford is cutting their production in half.

The four troubling companies that Ford is doing business with were included in Ford’s signed agreements with CATL, the letters said.