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

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. I hate this governor and I will protest this if there is one organized.

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

The people of Michigan need to take a look at their Sister State a little West, Wisconsin.

Not a Chinese company but our state pulled a fast one on us with Foxconn (even the name, Fox Con!!)
They used eminent domain, they took private lands in a way I feel were unethical and downright illegal.
All for WHAT? They said jobs, money, blah blah blah. The reality is it lined politicans pockets and left locals homeless without their ancestral land, that’s it.

Don’t believe a dang thing they say!

a reply to: JAGStorm

Totally agree Jag. 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.

Selling out our country for a quick buck to line their pockets.

Sounds like politics as usual these days.

It's so damn infuriating.

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 a couple of hours drive from this area.

originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
a reply to: JAGStorm

Totally agree Jag. 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.

In Michigans case that might be true, but for us it was totally Republican supported. Like I've said, they are all cut from the same cloth, and they only serve one thing........money! It is sickening.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Of course, star for the reminder. Corruption is in all political areas.

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

Excuse me, but trying to fight city hall on this one is rather pointless considering that the Democrat Government Party is, anymore, just a subsidiary of the CCP. You might just as well get over it. You got a CCP puppet as POTUS and half the US Congress is doing business with the CCP.

In a very real sense, this is all rather silly. The truth is you can't live in this world without the CCP in it; 75% or more of the products you buy everyday are produced by the CCP.

a reply to: TonyS

Absolutely, however, I refuse to get over it and this is deadly serious, nothing silly about it. My opinion of course, just like I don't want to kiss any Chinese commies rears while they release a big cloud of stink in my face like some people that just want to go along and live with it.

a reply to: JAGStorm

I was going to mention the whole Foxconn debacle. I think the only thing Scott Walker did right when he was governor. Or was he for letting Foxconn in?

My memory of Wisconsin life comes and goes in an Alzheimers way

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

I am all for other countries bringing jobs to America. 100% support it. But American tax dollars shouldn't fund it at all. If China wants to build a factory that THEY pay for from top to bottom and hire a bunch of American workers that is great. We need to bring jobs back to America. Just like we have outsourced so many jobs to 3rd world countries, we would benefit from other countries outsourcing jobs to the USA.

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

The outrage did no good during the lockdown and it won't do any good now. The wicked witch of Lansing does not listen to the people she supposedly represents and leads. My cabin in near Gaylord and I can't wait to see her fellow communists wandering around town. Yippee.

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

I dont want that thing anywhere near our aquafir!

This crap is basically in my back yard and not too far from Camp Grayling. I hate this governor and I will protest this if there is one organized.

If you find one, Im in.

If you dont, lets start one.

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

I don't want to go along with it either, but I recognize there's going to be change, like it or not.

So I analyze it this way. Who is my enemy? The woke Left, Antifa, BLM. They think that by aligning themselves with the CCP, they can cement their socialist, racist authoritarian governance. What they don't realize is that once the CCP establishes total dominance, they will cast their useful idiots into the trash, trample them under foot and dispatch them to the gulag. Look at the history of the Party in China and Russia.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
Selling out our country for a quick buck to line their pockets.

Sounds like politics as usual these days.

It's so damn infuriating.

Which is why Americans in general brush off all the signs of China taking over America and much of the world.

As long as Chinese plants and companies on our soil Employ American Workers...ALL IS WELL.

As long as Chinese products keep costing less than brands made elsewhere, including here at home...ALL IS WELL.

If they continue "treating us good", China's President for life, Xi-Eleven Jingping can set up a satellite office in the White House and AMERICANS (overall) WON'T CARE.

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: [email protected]

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?

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

Ill assume you know the area as well. Thats our aquifir. Having Ice Mountain on it is bad enough and if this goes through, watch what they do.

Just one little industrial accident and we and all our neighbors are screwed. It simply doesnt belong up here. It belongs in or near a city where the proper infrastructure is already present.

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

Looks like a kind of grassroots Hear Them Roar dealie is in order, maybe a la filling inboxes and VMs with a whole bunch of "Townsfolk said No, now listen" emphasis.

Save threats entirely, just make staunch solidarity firmly known.


Not that Dipwhit's going to personally read anything, but I have a rude-toned email to write. Middle of the night might be best for excoriation inspiration here