Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said this week he had blocked Virginia from wooing a Ford electric vehicle battery plant over concerns that it used Chinese tech.
Youngkin made the comment in response to questions about a section of his speech that dwelled on the dangers of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, which he called “a dictatorial political party that only has one goal: global dominance at the expense of the United States.”
Republicans and Democrats had privately seemed caught off guard by Youngkin’s emphasis on the topic, but the anti-China rhetoric fit with a push by Republicans nationwide to draw a harder line against the country. GOP leaders in Congress have to investigate Chinese influence, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who, like Youngkin, is presumed to harbor ambitions to run for president — also called this week for barring China from state affairs.Youngkin noted during the speech that he banned the Chinese-owned tech services WeChat and TikTok from state-owned smartphones. And he warned that “Virginians also should be wary of Chinese communist intrusion into Virginia’s economy.
“I think I’m uniquely positioned to understand how the Chinese Communist Party works, because I dealt with it … and I understand what they’re doing,” Youngkin said.His administration provided few specific details this week about the Ford project or the farm threat. The battery plant involved “national security risk-type technology and he stopped that,” Richard Cullen, Youngkin’s chief legal counsel, said in an interview. “They were looking for land and incentives to build something and I think that was the nucleus” of the evolving concern about farmland, he said.
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