{"id":153276,"date":"2026-06-21T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153276"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:00:06","slug":"the-us-town-the-chinese-company-and-the-bankrupting-battle-over-a-battery-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153276","title":{"rendered":"The US town, the Chinese company and the bankrupting battle over a battery plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLess than three years ago, residents of a small rural township in the US state of Michigan packed a community hall to celebrate what many saw as a victory for local democracy over a Chinese-headquartered battery manufacturer.<br \/>\nThe residents of Green Charter Township prayed, cheered and congratulated one another for overturning a town board that had supported Gotion\u2019s proposed US$2.36 billion electric vehicle battery project.<br \/>\nAs the new board quickly rescinded the Gotion plan, the residents&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3357820\/us-town-chinese-company-and-bankrupting-battle-over-battery-plant?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLess than three years ago, residents of a small rural township in the US state of Michigan packed a community hall to celebrate what&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}