People retake government: Stunning election win by NoGotion, opponent of Chinese battery plant

Even left-leaning Politico had to acknowledge it, their headline being, “How a tiny town sent a big message to China — and Biden.”

Ordinary citizens in Michigan pulled off the extraordinary on Tuesday, recalling the entire slate of Green Charter Township supervisors who supported Gotion’s construction of a lithium battery factory for electric vehicles in their township. Gotion is a Chinese company with multiple links to the Chinese Communist Party. Wasting not a minute, replacement candidates opposing the project immediately took over township offices and changed the locks to keep the defeated out.

That was in Michigan, but Gotion has a nearly identical project planned for Manteno, Illinois, where citizens are equally incensed. Both projects are to be subsidized with billions of dollars of state and federal taxpayer money.

We interviewed former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group, a leading critic of both the Michigan and Illinois Gotion projects.