<p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/republican-governor-glenn-youngkin-brushes-off-criticism-after-trump-swipe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin</a> told Ford thanks, but no thanks to a potential $3.5 billion battery plant over the car maker’s partnership with China.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The plant, under consideration for Pittsylvania County in the southwestern part of Old Dominion, would have made lithium iron phosphate batteries for <a href="https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/the-misadventure-of-electric-vehicles-wyoming-lawmakers-introduce-resolution-to-ban-new-electric-car-sales/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electric vehicles</a> and employed as many as 2,500 workers. The company, which had not made a final decision, was believed to be considering building the plant in partnership with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology before the Republican governor scuttled the deal last month.</p>
<p>“The consortium of Ford and CATL were hoping to build a plant, as reported and confirmed by Ford, where Ford would build the building, but a company that is majorly influenced by the Chinese Communist Party was going to operate the plant, and the employees were going to work for the Chinese Communist Party controlled company,&#8221; Youngkin said Friday. &#8220;They were going to use that in order to try to tap into taxpayer benefits at state level as well as the federal level that were specifically designated for non-Chinese communist party entities.&#8221; Youngkin told reporters he was uncomfortable with a CCP-connected company benefiting from Virginia tax dollars, adding that he felt the deal&#8217;s structure was &#8220;a bit deceptive.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Youngkin stands against communist China but Whitmer is “vying” for the business.</p>
<p>Whitmer has never understood economic development which has led to massive job losses and an exodus from Michigan. She courts the CCP out of desperation. <a href="https://t.co/yp3eJL0LTb">https://t.co/yp3eJL0LTb</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tudor Dixon (@TudorDixon) <a href="https://twitter.com/TudorDixon/status/1615812284940488743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Democratic state lawmakers blasted Youngkin for spurning the deal and accused the first-term governor of bashing China to further his potential White House ambitions. Youngkin has not indicated he is contemplating a 2024 White House bid, but his stunning 2021 victory in the key blue state drew national attention.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“To deny [people in the community] jobs because you’re in last place in Republican presidential primaries [is] gubernatorial malpractice,” Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax) <a href="https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/ford-plant-halted-by-youngkin-would-have-created-2-500-jobs-in-southside/article_9edc230a-95dc-11ed-bdd8-2301b6df2e06.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Richmond Times-Dispatch</a>. “I mean, this is clearly just obvious to me that the governor’s in some kind of out-China-bashing-contest with [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis and Governor Greg Abbott out of Texas.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said Ford’s partner is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and was therefore not welcome in the state.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“While Ford is an iconic American company, it became clear that this proposal would serve as a front for the Chinese Communist party, which could compromise our economic security and Virginians’ personal privacy,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter <a href="https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/ford-plant-halted-by-youngkin-would-have-created-2-500-jobs-in-southside/article_9edc230a-95dc-11ed-bdd8-2301b6df2e06.html">told the Richmond Times-Dispatch</a>. “Virginians can be confident that companies with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party won’t receive a leg up from the Commonwealth’s economic incentive packages. When the potentially damaging effects of the deal were realized, the plant proposal never reached a final discussion stage.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Ford is now believed to be considering building the plant in Michigan.</p>
<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s note</strong>: This story has been updated with fresh comments from Governor Youngkin</em></p>

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