Wanxiang’s Illinois-headquartered U.S. operations are run by Lu’s son-in-law, Ni Pin, a neighbor of mine, whose youngest child will start in the fall of 2015 at my alma mater, Barrington High School. Ni’s two oldest children have already graduated from there; one is at the University of Chicago, the other at Northwestern University. “America is our new home,” Ni told me. “And we’re going to build an important business here.”
