Outrage brewing over plans for China-linked battery company in Michigan

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

Just caught this on the local Fox network yesterday. The governor is putting up our tax money to fund this plant and according to Tudor Dixon, the CCP are involved as well as Ferris State University in Big Rapids. I saw a rebuttal from the township on a 9&10 report. They dismissed a couple of Dixon's claims, but never addressed the CCP being here in Michigan.

Outrage brewing over plans for China-linked battery company in Michigan: 'Don’t want CCP in our small town'

Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon blasted Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday for moving forward with plans to allow $715 million dollars of taxpayer money to fund a Chinese Communist Party-linked business in the state. Gotion High tech-Co., a battery company based in Hefei, China, announced its plans last year for a roughly $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Big Rapids, Mich. that would bring an estimated 2,350 jobs to the state, according to a press release from Whitmer’s office. Dixon, however, said a CCP-linked business shouldn’t be allowed to operate in the state and called out Whitmer for allowing the company to come to Michigan.

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This crap is basically in my back yard and not too far from Camp Grayling. This shows me pretty clearly who is behind Whitmer, the Chinese Communists along with the Socialist Democrats who got her elected with their vote fixing. The situation has become very clear to me now after this deal. I hate this governor and I will protest this if there is one organized.

Well, Camp Grayling and the Coast Guard Station in Traverse City are both about 70 miles from this proposed CCP outpost (a little over an hour's drive). We have 11 military bases in Michigan and other assets like the Great Lakes that is nearly one third of all the fresh water on the planet, all within about a 2 hour drive from this spy nest.

[Ninurta]

I think China is trying to get aheade of the "made in America" sentiment that is brewing by setting up dummy companies and shell corporations with intent to maintain Chinese control of resources while giving the illusion that their products are "American made" simply by virtue of being assembled here with Chinese raw materials and Chinese revenue.... and of course profit flow out of the US and back into China.

In other words, it looks to me like they are trying to set up CCP controlled Chinese sweat shops within US borders, with an unhealthy side-dose of CCP spy rings.

It was happening here in Virginia as well, under Northam, and even before him. They flat out bought an entire college campus in Bristol, VA - Virginia Intermont College.  I believe they intend to use it as a base to wriggle CCP tentacles into this area, which in my mind is a no-go - this is MY AO!  Back in the 80's, I went to school there for about a month before I got kicked out for being poor. They've also bought out all the hog farms and hog processing facilities in southeastern VA, like Smithfiled. When you buy Smithfield pork products, you're lining CCP pockets.

The Socialists have had a big push on to make this area a "green energy" manufacturing center, to supplant the coal industry that they are destroying. My concern was that it would be CCP controlled as well, and with the experience in Michigan, it looks like I might not have been far wrong. This CCP base camp at VI College in Bristol doesn't do anything to allay my suspicions. The new sheriff in town, Governor Youngkin, has put the kybosh on it, and has stated he's putting an end to CCP acquisition and CCP corporations starting anything new in Virginia or buying up any more Virginia properties, and I'm all for that. It's hard to fight an enemy that you are selling all of your land, food production, infrastructure, data, and secrets to. Those are the sorts of things you don't want an enemy to be in control of, much less sell to them.

There are no percentages in giving your enemy a toehold inside your perimeter. We already have an enemy within in the Socialists, and we seriously need to crack down on their intentional importation of even more enemy state actors.


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[Michigan Swamp Buck]

OK, this has actually been in the works since last year and isn't strange that we only hear about it after Dixon brings this up now?

Whitmer Announces New Battery Component Manufacturing Facility in Big Rapids October 05, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 5, 2022 Contact: press@michigan.gov

Gov. Whitmer Announces New Battery Component Manufacturing Facility in Big Rapids, Creating 2,350 Jobs and an Investment of More than $2.3 billion LANSING, Mich. – As part of a series of electric vehicle battery investments made today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in announcing Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) support for a transformational investment by the global battery company Gotion, which has chosen to build its battery component manufacturing facility in Big Rapids.

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Then this rebuttal from Fox 9&10 Cadillac . . .

Fears over a proposed battery plant in Mecosta County took center stage nationally this week after some new concerns were aired. The proposed battery plant has been the center of controversy for months now over concerns about the impact it would have on the local community. Concerns over impacts on the environment, local manufacturing, and human rights have been discussed with this plant proposal. Now, all of that is background noise as new concerns emerged. Advertisement Jim Chapman, supervisor of Green Charter Township, said the township has been busy fielding calls, and a lot have been about concerns that Chapman said were way off the mark. “I took a phone call today. Wanted to talk about how the plant was going in, taking up 100 feet of space along the river. Another one wanted to talk about how the rail transport of this, the product, when we don’t have rail here. You know, as far as the footage, I mean, we’re back a better mile from the river,” said Chapman. Another concern is the claim that Gotion has an allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party. Gotion Vice President of North American operations Chuck Thelen said those claims are baseless. “I’m surprised that people are making the claims as wildly as they are. The other claim that we’re going to inundate the rapids with 250 migrant workers from China. That makes no sense. We will bring our centers of expertise, experts to help set up the equipment and the process. That will probably be somewhere between 20 to 50 people,” said Thelen.

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Well then, who can say?

[Ninurta]

Well then, who can say?

Some thoughts to consider in that vein - 

China can make these batteries far cheaper in China, using Chinese slave labor. So what is their incentive to set up the plant in Michigan instead?

The CCP NEVER does anything out fo the goodness of their black little hearts. Look at how they are bankrupting other countries and blackmailing them into giving up large swaths of territory with the "Roads and Belts" initiative, and with the overly lucrative "loans" they are spreading around - when the country can't repay the loan, which was designed to be too large to begin with, then the CCP just makes them an offer they can't refuse, almost always involving China taking ownership of part or all of their sovereign territory.

Even the CEO of the company admits they are going to bring in Chinese "experts", albeit in lower numbers than claimed. I think it'd be a good idea to watch and see whether those numbers of imports actually swell towards the larger figure...

So "who can say" indeed? What could possibly go wrong? Myself, I don't think it's a good idea to invite a rattlesnake into your sleeping bag and expect it not to bite you, but what do I know? I'm just another hillbilly.

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