The documentary (on Netflix) is well made and interesting, highly recommended if you're even a little interested in how a Chinese company set up operations in a closed GM plant in Ohio. It seems to do a good job of remaining impartial and objective, as any good documentary should. But we weren't there ourselves and have no way on knowing if important information has been intentionally left out or certain issues stresses greater that they had been in reality. Regardless it's an interesting story and is told well.
It does a particularly good job of illustrating the situation from the POV of the individuals involved. You get a good sense of what they are experiencing and feeling without ever feeling yourself that you're being preached at or manipulated by an emotional pitch.
The shorter commentary linked here does a pretty good job of summarizing most of the documentary, and makes numerous pithy observations about American and Chinese working cultures. However it goes off the rails in a prolonged globalist rant finishing with meaningless patter in presumably an attempt to sound profound "We just need to look within ourselves. We are all that we need.".
But if you want to get the gist of the documentary it does a fair job.
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