1 And here we are, four years later, reading of another fracas in another rust-belt town.

2 Protests were frequent; some, in the rustbelt of the north-east in 2002, were the largest China had experienced in many years.

3 The car industry in the rustbelt is miserable. Factories making thirsty pickup trucks are cutting back or closing.

4 But much of the industry here is more modern, efficient and "clean" than that of China's old rustbelt cities.

5 The U.S. traded its manufacturing sector'shealth for its entertainment industry, hoping that Police Academy sequels couldtake the place of the rustbelt.