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Alex Ossola

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WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

manufacturing plants, promising to replace jobs lost to the global economy.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

But what happens if local industries can't compete?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Two auto glass factories in Ohio are showing what could happen when America's biggest rival, China, sets up shop next door.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Gavin Bade covers trade and industrial policy for the journal and visited Ohio to find out more.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Gavin, your story focuses on the Fuyao plant in Moraine, Ohio, and the impact it's had on a competitor, Vitro, which has a plant about two and a half hours drive away.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

You went inside the Vitro plant.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

What is it like there?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

What's the vibe?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

How is Fuyao applying competitive pressure?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

And what does the company say about this?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Right.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

How generalizable is this really?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

I mean, is this a typical kind of dynamic where you have a local manufacturing setup and then a Chinese rival comes in?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Like, can we see more of this coming?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

That was WSJ reporter Gavin Bade.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Gavin, thank you so much.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

And finally, it's the Monday after the Super Bowl, so if your office is anything like ours, everyone is talking about the ads.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Besides the toilet humor and heavy dose of nostalgia, like, did we really need not one but two ads featuring the Backstreet Boys?

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

Anyway, AI companies stole the show.

WSJ What’s News
A Chinese Glass Factory Opened in Ohio. Its Rivals Can’t Compete.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon all showcased their latest products.