When Massachusetts placed a big order for new subway cars a few years back, it also said they’d have to be made in the state. That’s what brought the winning bidder, the Chinese Rolling Rail Stock Corporation, or CRRC, to Springfield — where it’s providing good-paying manufacturing jobs in a city that desperately needs them. But now the future is uncertain— thanks to President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China. Reporter Adam Reilly has more.
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