Republican Congressman Tim Walberg is not pleased about the plans by Ford Motor Company to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Marshall. Ford will be working with a Chinese company, and Walberg says that is what bothers him, especially with how close the facility will be to Fort Custer in Battle Creek.
“When the enemy tells you what they’re going to do, believe them. It’s the first principle. If China says they’re going to take over the United States, believe them. How they do that, they say they will do it without firing a shot and they’ll do it from the inside. I think it’s a concern to be 15 minutes from our military installation with a consulting company that’s there running the operations.”
He met recently with Ford CEO Jim Farley about it.
“We didn’t come to blows, but it was a strong meeting. It ended very good, very positive, with a willingness to work together.”
Walberg says Chinese companies that do business in the U.S. need the approval of that country’s communist party and have to report any intelligence gathered in this nation. He made his comments to the WSJM Morning Show today.
