Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is urging the Department of Justice to open a formal investigation into an autonomous trucking company that was funded by money from a prominent Chinese businessman, alleging that it had passed on sensitive information to communist China.
Hawley, a member of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, announced on May 30 that he had sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi expressing his concerns about TuSimple Holdings Inc., which was founded in San Diego in 2015. TuSimple voluntarily delisted itself from the Nasdaq in early 2024 and rebranded as CreateAI late last year.
“Why is some ‘self-driving’ truck company, whose whole business model is about putting American workers OUT of business, sharing tech secrets with China? They should be investigated. Pronto,” Hawley wrote on social media platform X on May 29….