Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday touted a latest choice to withdraw his state from the operating for a $3.5 billion Ford electrical vehicle-battery plant due to its involvement with a Chinese language-based firm as GOP governors look to fight the overseas adversary.
The Republican described the plant, which might have been run by China-based Modern Amperex Know-how, as a “Computer virus construction to realize entry to taxpayer incentives” from Democrats’ Inflation Discount Act that offers rebates for electrical automobiles.
“That is utilizing taxpayer cash to additional enrich a Chinese language firm on the expense of America. It’s simply not occurring in America,” Mr. Youngkin stated on Fox Information Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “This ought to be an American provide chain that’s trusted, not one which’s outsourced to the Chinese language Communist Celebration.”
Mr. Youngkin’s choice to tug Virginia from the operating late final yr got here as different Republican governors, together with South Dakota’s Kristi Noem and Florida’s Ron DeSantis, look to forestall Chinese language corporations from shopping for farmland and making different actual property investments.
“The liberal agenda will stand as much as China till it will get uncomfortable, and the minute it encroaches on their inexperienced agenda … they’ll again down,” Mr. Youngkin stated. “We have to be robust right here.”
