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Rural Michigan communities revolt over plans to build Chinese-owned factories nearby: 'It's disgusting'
Fox news ^ | 3-18-23 | Brandon Gillespie

Posted on 03/18/2023 9:52:34 AM PDT by dynachrome

Communities in rural Michigan are revolting against a decision to allow a Chinese-owned firm to build a battery plant in the area, according to footage of a recent Green Charter Township board meeting obtained by conservative outlet The Midwesterner.

More than 100 residents of Green Charter Township and Big Rapids in rural Mecosta County, Michigan, showed up to the March 14 meeting to voice concerns over the presence of the Chinese-owned company, Gotion Global, amid growing concern over national security issues related to China.

"The thing that drives some the most crazy about this is that this is a Chinese-owned company. A Chinese-owned company is a communist company. Why would you bring a communist company to Big Rapids, Michigan, when we have troops mobilizing right now to fight China?" one resident, who identified himself as an Iraq War veteran, told the town's board members.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: battery; chinese; factory; michigan
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I used to know the area well. Muskegon river and lots of lakes. Big Rapids itself is a college town and probably full libtard by now.
1 posted on 03/18/2023 9:52:34 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Pffft, they elected a communist governor. Get used to it.


2 posted on 03/18/2023 9:53:17 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: dynachrome

I dunno, let them build it and if things ever get bad we get a free battery factory.


3 posted on 03/18/2023 9:55:49 AM PDT by Wayne07
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To: dynachrome

“We have troops now mobilizing to fight China” ???
I thought business created jobs?
Me thinks someone needs to step away from FOX News for a couple of weeks.


4 posted on 03/18/2023 9:56:47 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (lol Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: MotorCityBuck

Be a shame if the plant kept burning down.


5 posted on 03/18/2023 10:00:26 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Somebody doesn’t understand the Chinese. Everything is about warfare and advantage...especially business. They consider it the soft underbelly of America.


6 posted on 03/18/2023 10:04:25 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: dynachrome

Not to worry, Michigan. The Chinese will probably drop you like a hot potato when they learn of your efforts to kill “right to work” and make union membership compulsory.

Then you can bemoan “Why did the Chinese take their factories to another state?”


7 posted on 03/18/2023 10:06:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The government's lying liars love to lie)
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To: fuente

Did you read that in a fortune cookie, Son Zooz?


8 posted on 03/18/2023 10:06:43 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (lol Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: brownsfan

No, they didn’t! Most of outstate, didn’t. It was the urban cesspools that gave us that witch and her flying monkeys.


9 posted on 03/18/2023 10:22:51 AM PDT by madison10
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To: dynachrome

Why not, the Chincs have access, from Sniffer, to freshly printed Fed dollars.


10 posted on 03/18/2023 10:36:44 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (make Bolshies )
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To: Wayne07

Except for the batter factory part, Works for me.


11 posted on 03/18/2023 10:54:32 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: brownsfan

Pffft, they elected a communist governor“

No THEY didn’t. The rats know they have lost the rural vote but they no longer care because they don’t them. So they are going punish them at every opportunity.


12 posted on 03/18/2023 11:01:15 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Wayne07

“I dunno, let them build it and if things ever get bad we get a free battery factory.”

It’s NOT Free. Michigan taxpayers are funding this CCP owned spy crap business. Our Communist loving stretchin Gretchen is using Michigan Tax breaks to fund this P.O.S. industry.


13 posted on 03/18/2023 12:33:39 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: nonliberal

Yes.

Expressing “concern” must have made the Chinese smirk and break into derisive laughter at the naive Americans they are about to conquer totally.

Unless something changes that.


14 posted on 03/18/2023 3:14:19 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Nope. Paraphrasing what I have been told by several Chinese that I have known for a very long time. Long enough for them to feel comfortable opening up to me. Most Americans will never experience this level of clarity from Chinese that they know.


15 posted on 03/18/2023 8:07:52 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: fuente

You make an assumption.
I’ve have Chinese co-workers, and some have not only become friends they have been guests over the years.
We have interesting conversations on all subjects. Some we agree upon. Some we don’t.
You paint with a broad brush. That makes you perfect for this site.


16 posted on 03/18/2023 8:12:51 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (lol Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: MotorCityBuck

Nope. Paraphrasing what I have been told by several Chinese that I have known for a very long time. Long enough for them to feel comfortable opening up to me. Most Americans will never experience this level of clarity from Chinese that they know.


17 posted on 03/18/2023 8:15:38 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: MotorCityBuck

The Chinese I refer to is the CCP, not most Chinese people. But make no mistake about it, the CCP is at war with us. Feel free to disagree, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are. It does illustrate how blind many are to it. BTW, this paraphrase summary was told to me more than 20 years ago and confirmed by others since. As a Chinese non-Yugir Muslim, and other non-Han types, they were all more than just a little clear-eyed about what was happening then and since.


18 posted on 03/18/2023 8:26:11 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: MotorCityBuck; fuente
None of this changes the fact that we cannot remain a western nation by accepting non-western immigrants.

The Chinese say one thing to the white man and say very different things when amongst eachother. They were banned from immigrating to the United States for decades for a very god reason. They are an enemy of western culture and have never belonged here.

19 posted on 03/18/2023 8:44:35 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: MotorCityBuck

A evil capitalist is someone who would whore out his mother to a Chinaman just to make a profit.


20 posted on 03/18/2023 8:52:52 PM PDT by Clemenza
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