For a century, America’s car plants, dealer lots and highways have been the world’s preeminent automotive battlefield. No longer.
China has grown to be simultaneously the biggest vehicle market, the biggest vehicle exporter and, with an eye to the future, the global center for electric vehicles. If the US auto industry, wedded as it is to gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs, is to remain relevant, it should ditch the siege mentality and consider inviting its chief adversary inside.