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Plan for Chinese Electric Vehicle Battery Plant Sparks Opposition in Rural Michigan

Plan for Chinese Electric Vehicle Battery Plant Sparks Opposition in Rural Michigan
The rural Michigan community of Green Charter Township was to become home to a Chinese EV battery plant. Courtesy of Jim Chapman
Steven Kovac
Steven Kovac
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The possible construction of a new lithium-ion battery factory in their backyard has presented the people of rural western Michigan with a choice between new jobs and national security.

Because of the battery company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), former Air Force Staff Sergeant Ormand Hook had no trouble making up his mind.