BIG RAPIDS, Mich.—Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), in a western Michigan rally on Aug. 27, criticized a controversial proposal to subsidize the construction of a Chinese-owned manufacturing plant in the region with U.S. tax dollars. 
Vance told approximately 1,000 attendees that the plan, supported by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), was a threat to national security. 
The company in question, Gotion Inc., manufactures batteries for electric vehicles and has registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, according to the registration document submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. The company, based in Fremont, California, is “wholly owned and controlled” by Gotion High-tech Co. Ltd., a Chinese company based near Hefei, a city in eastern China….