Youngkin Quashes Construction of Green Energy Plant That Would Have Been 'a Front for China'

While the plant was ostensibly owned by the Ford Motor Company, it would have been run by a Chinese company, Contemporary Amperex Technology, which also would have owned "the technology used in building the battery cells," the Virginia Mercury reported. Youngkin said Wednesday that he'd halted plans to build the factory.

"We welcome and encourage economic cooperation with international companies," the governor said, but "'Made in Virginia' cannot be a front for the Chinese Communist Party."