The EV lobby thought it could force a Chinese battery plant on its neighbors. It was wrong

After a three-year battle, the residents of Green Charter Township, Michigan, can finally rest easy knowing a Chinese Communist Party-linked battery plant won’t be forced down their throats.

You see, in 2022, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) announced a plan to give $715 million in taxpayer cash and tax incentives to lure Gotion, a Chinese battery maker, to rural central Michigan. She did it in the midst of a reelection campaign so she could fire off a press release claiming credit for 2,600 “good-paying jobs.”

She didn’t mind the fact that this proposed one-square-mile plant would be located less than 100 miles from an Army and National Guard training facility called Camp Grayling. The real irony is that the U.S. military has been training the Taiwanese military

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