The promise of robust manufacturing tax credits prompted companies to announce a flurry of new projects, including several that have drawn the ire of local residents and elected Republicans for their connections to Chinese firms. Gotion, an American subsidiary entirely owned and controlled by China-based Gotion High-Tech, wants to build subsidized manufacturing facilities in Michigan and Illinois. Gotion High-Tech has extensiveconnections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and local residents in Green Charter Township,
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.