The Green Energy Factory Facing a Storm of China Backlash

Clean-energy projects involving Chinese companies are grappling with fallout from troubled U.S.-Sino relations

Protesters in Big Rapids, Mich., this month carried signs opposing the proposed Gotion battery-component factory. Kristen Norman for The Wall Street Journal

Chinese clean-energy manufacturers were enticed by huge green subsidies to expand in the U.S. Now, they are confronting a storm of anti-China sentiment.

Projects across the country involving Chinese companies face resistance, including a $3.5 billion battery factory Ford Motor Co. is setting up with the help of Chinese battery company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL. Other projects are soft-pedaling their Chinese ties. 

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