Horizon cited in Washington Free Beacon coverage of Foreign Entity Supply Chain Risks

The Washington Free Beacon reported on January 26, 2026 about solar energy companies maneuvering to avoid designation as “prohibited foreign entities” in an article titled “Solar Companies Scramble To Hide China Ties As Trump Readies Rules Barring Chinese-Owned Green Energy Firms From Receiving Taxpayer Funds.” Horizon Advisory’s expertise was cited in this story underscoring the need for thorough due diligence in vetting foreign entity risks throughout energy supply chains:

"We have countless examples where Chinese actors are able to control the behaviors and decision-making of entities by being a dominant customer or dominant supplier of them and by having regulatory access from the Chinese side, where China's developed a whole suite of regulatory and legal regimes that extend extraterritorially from Beijing," Picarsic told the Free Beacon.

"These cases demonstrate that you need to move beyond just the ownership criteria because there are all these other ways that the Chinese government and the appendages of these Chinese companies can exert influence over an entity, even one that's domiciled outside of Beijing's borders," he added.

Horizon Advisory’s framework for vetting “Foreign Entity of Concern” indicators — and risks resulting from China’s dominance all along energy supply chains value chain is summarized in the recently published BUYER BEWARE report.