advanced battery industry

On Thursday, September 4, agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a construction site for an LG Energy Solutions battery manufacturing plant in Ellabell, Georgia and arrested 475 people, including approximately 300 South Korean nationals.  The raid was an unmitigated disaster for U.S. industrial policy and a black eye for the United States. The United States lags dangerously behind China in the development of an advanced battery industry.  This lag endangers the U.S. economy threatening the long-term loss of a domestic automobile industry.  It also endangers U.S. national security by ensuring that U.S. warfighters will be using less advanced and [...]