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

Michigan factory making battery components for electric cars may offer an economic lifeline, but for some residents there's a problem: the parent company is in China

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.