Ro Khanna Demands Answers From Chinese Glass Maker Fuyao After $126 Million Federal Asset Seizure

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., sent a letter to Fuyao Glass Industry Group demanding documentation on its labor practices, its finances, and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party, according to Fox News Digital, which obtained the letter first. Fuyao is one of the world's largest automotive glass manufacturers, with U.S. headquarters in Ohio and plants across the Midwest.

Khanna is the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the CCP. He told Fox News Digital the allegations against Fuyao are serious: price suppression through CCP subsidies, importation of undocumented workers to undercut American labor, and exploitation of those workers through long hours and low pay.

This isn't a new controversy. In 2024, federal agents raided Fuyao properties in Ohio and executed a civil asset forfeiture of $126 million, according to the Justice Department. That seizure covered luxury goods, vehicles, and a dozen commercial and residential properties, including what DOJ called "boarding houses" used to house migrant workers.

DOJ's own press release, cited by Fox News, alleged that many workers were smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico and steered to the Dayton area to work at Fuyao-linked factories. Most were of Chinese or Hispanic nationality, according to DOJ, and lived in company-owned "family style hotels" while being shuttled to and from work in company transportation. None of these allegations have resulted in criminal convictions of Fuyao as a corporate entity, and the civil forfeiture process is separate from criminal prosecution.

A Bipartisan Paper Trail, Not Just a Khanna Crusade

Khanna isn't working this alone, and he isn't just going after one company. Earlier, he joined Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, along with Republican Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding an overdue DOJ report on labor trafficking tied to CCP-affiliated auto parts and glass suppliers, according to the House Select Committee on the CCP.

Congress required that report under the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, signed into law by President Trump on January 23, 2026. The law gave DOJ 120 days to deliver it. That deadline has passed, and the report still hasn't shown up, the lawmakers say.

The same letter points to a second CCP-linked case: Qingdao Sunsong, an auto parts manufacturer whose Moraine, Ohio, headquarters was searched by federal agents in 2