A Foxconn logo before the arrival of President Trump for a groundbreaking ceremony in Mount Pleasant, Wis., last June.CreditCreditDarren Hauck/Reuters
It was heralded a year and a half ago as the start of a Midwestern manufacturing renaissance: Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics behemoth, would build a $10 billion Wisconsin plant to make flat-screen televisions, creating 13,000 jobs. President Trump later called the project “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Now that prospect looks less certain…