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The Air Force has told North Dakota leaders that it believes a Chinese company\u2019s plans to build a wet corn milling plant near its Grand Forks base poses a \u201csignificant threat to national security,\u201d prompting city officials to say they\u2019ll move to stop a project once touted as an economic boon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fufeng Group\u2019s planned $700 million facility would be 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, a location that triggered some local concern<\/a> about potential espionage. Gov. Doug Burgum and U.S. Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer \u2014 all Republicans \u2014 pressed the federal government in July<\/a> to expedite a review of any security risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S.-China business ties have become strained amid growing tensions between the two countries over security and trade issues, which often overlap. China on Monday criticized U.S. controls on technology<\/a> exports as a trade violation. Fears over spying have led the U.S. armed forces to prohibited the Chinese-owned app TikTok on military devices, and nearly half of state governments<\/a> across the country have banned the video-sharing platform<\/a> from state-owned devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grand Forks Air Force Base is a center for both air and space operations, according to a letter<\/a> sent to Hoeven and Cramer by Andrew Hunter, an assistant secretary of the Air Force. The senators released the correspondence Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proposed project presents a significant threat to national security with both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area,\u201d Hunter wrote. The letter didn\u2019t offer any evidence that Fufeng is a threat, nor did it detail what kind of risks the company\u2019s business might pose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, it was enough to move local authorities to action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe the city should discontinue the Fufeng project and instead we should work together to find an American company to develop the agriculture project,\u201d Hoeven and Cramer said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski said in a statement that he will ask his City Council to deny building permits for the project and to refuse to connect the 370-acre (150-hectare) site in Grand Forks\u2019 agri-business park to public infrastructure. The mayor, who previously favored the project, added that the federal government\u2019s response had been \u201cslow and contradictory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clearly a reflection of both the growing skepticism of trade ties with China and a sense of the security risks that come from Chinese investment,\u201d said Adam Segal, director of the digital and cyberspace policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without knowing more about specific risks the Air Force fears, it\u2019s not clear why the military considers Fufeng\u2019s proposed mill a greater threat than any other Chinese presence in the area, Segal said. The region is already home to a Chinese-owned Cirrus Aircraft plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fufeng officials previously have denied that the plant would be used for espionage. The company declined a request for comment Wednesday. The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grand Forks City Council gave initial approval<\/a> last February to the project, which officials said at the time could be the largest private sector investment<\/a> in the community\u2019s history. The governor initially supported it, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But council meetings became increasingly heated over the summer amid growing public opposition and the increasingly strained U.S.-China<\/a> relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the \u201cunambiguous\u201d position of the Air Force, Burgum welcomed the city\u2019s decision to try to stop Fufeng from building the mill. He said in a statement that he would support the city\u2019s efforts to find another partner for a corn milling operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privately owned Fufeng makes products for animal nutrition, the food and beverage industry, pharmaceuticals, health and wellness, oil and gas, and others industries. It\u2019s a leading producer of xanthan gum. The Grand Forks site was to be its first U.S.-based manufacturing facility, and it was expected to initially require 25 million bushels of corn annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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