Chinese firm creates jobs in Rust Belt county that voted for Trump

[RandySF]

Tree-lined roads in Moraine used to be filled with cars driven by people heading to work at the region's ubiquitous factories. Those factories are now shuttered and rusted. And most of the workers have packed up and left.

"When all those jobs leave, it destroys a town," said Shane Reffett, a local resident who grew up nearby.

President Trump blames trade with China for destroying millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs in recent decades. At a meeting in Florida on Friday, Trump told President Xi Jinping he wanted to see a more balanced relationship on trade.

But Chinese money is already providing work for Reffett, and many others in Moraine. He works in a $600 million plant opened in October by Chinese company Fuyao Glass.

Fuyao is one of the world's largest auto glass makers. It says its products are found in a quarter of the cars on the planet. The new Ohio plant is set to supply a resurgent auto industry in Detroit and elsewhere.


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[napi21]

1. I sure don't like this business being owned by a Chinese Corp, but it is American jobs.

We have quite a few foreign owned businesses here. Honda, Toyota, BMW, and so on. We have also moved a lot of our mfg. ops to foreign countries. I'm thinking this is the world of this time and we need to deal with it. The ideal is to get more businesses to operate here in the US than we have operating overseas. It's a good way to offset all we've been outsourcing for years.