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manufacturing plants, promising to replace jobs lost to the global economy.
But what happens if local industries 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.
Gavin Bade covers trade and industrial policy for the journal and visited Ohio to find out more.
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.
You went inside the Vitro plant.
What is it like there?
What's the vibe?
How is Fuyao applying competitive pressure?
And what does the company say about this?
Right.
How generalizable is this really?
I mean, is this a typical kind of dynamic where you have a local manufacturing setup and then a Chinese rival comes in?
Like, can we see more of this coming?
That was WSJ reporter Gavin Bade.
Gavin, thank you so much.
And finally, it's the Monday after the Super Bowl, so if your office is anything like ours, everyone is talking about the ads.
Besides the toilet humor and heavy dose of nostalgia, like, did we really need not one but two ads featuring the Backstreet Boys?
Anyway, AI companies stole the show.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon all showcased their latest products.