U.S. town divided by factory deal as candidates compete to be toughest on China

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00:00mind is national security. Gauchan did not respond to VOA's request for comment.

00:06Gauchan was founded in China and its U.S. subsidiary is headquartered in California.

00:11Its board members hail from China, the U.S. and Germany. Vice President of North American

00:17Manufacturing Chuck Thielen said his company is being singled out. Something made someone decide

00:24Gauchan's a scapegoat when we have very similar business practices to many companies already here.

00:30Chinese investment in the U.S. has been a talking point in this year's presidential election.

00:35Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance are accusing

00:40Democrats of using taxpayer money to pay China to set up shop in the U.S.

00:46China is buying up our technology. They're buying up food supplies. They're buying up our farmland.

00:54According to the New York Times, Gauchan received $800 million in subsidies from

00:59Michigan's strategic fund and may be eligible for Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.

01:05Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and other Democrats contend that incentives to companies

01:11like Gauchan help keep business in the state rather than overseas. In May, Whitmer said,

01:17we cannot let Chinese companies be the only ones innovating around electric vehicles

01:23because then they will eat our lunch the way we're seeing happen in Europe.

01:27Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris also addressed U.S.-China competition in her

01:33keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention. I will make sure that we lead the world

01:43into the future on space and artificial intelligence that America, not China,

01:48wins the competition for the 21st century. Some residents here say the U.S.-China competition

01:55is coloring the debate. Well, the resistance comes from the national issue that's made everything

02:02kind of anti-Chinese. And the Gauchan issue has put Big Rapids on the campaign map,

02:08with Vance stopping here in August. Keller Yu, VOA News, Big Rapids, Michigan.

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