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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Tom Perkins in Green Township, Michigan, and Amy Hawkins

The China-linked EV battery mega factory dividing a US township

Electric Car Driving on Country Road.
Some in Green Township, Michigan, believe Gotion’s plans for a mega factory making batteries for electric vehicles in the region presents a national security risk. Others dismiss those fears as overblown. Photograph: Mykola Pokhodzhay/Getty Images

Set among green rolling hills and tall pines, Lori Brock’s storybook farm encapsulates northern Michigan. A five-day-old mare bucks around a pen, while small black pigs roam through a barn and donkeys graze in fields bordered by white fences.

It is a bucolic way of life in Green Township, but one that Brock and many of her neighbours believe could be threatened by an unlikely adversary – China’s Communist party.

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