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Swallowing America’s Pride Would Be Worth It in Japanese Company’s Deal To Buy United States Steel

It’s embarrassing that America’s elites shipped much of our country’s manufacturing overseas in past decades. A little embarrassment is sometimes restorative, though.

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U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant at Braddock, Pennsylvania, in February 2019. AP/Gene J. Puskar, file
GRANT NEWSHAM
GRANT NEWSHAM

“Countries have no friends … only interests” — or so goes the paraphrased version of Lord Palmerston’s statement.

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GRANT NEWSHAM
GRANT NEWSHAM

Colonel Newsham is a retired United States Marine and a former American diplomat with many years’ experience in Japan. He is a Senior Fellow with both the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute in the United States, and a Senior Fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies in Japan. He is the author of 'When China Attacks: A Warning to America.'

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