David Fickling, Columnist

Westinghouse's Boat to China Has Sailed

U.S. concern over bids for the nuclear-plant builder looks misplaced.

April 5, 2017 at 5:42 AM UTC

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

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The Chinese are coming after America's nukes.

That's the fear of the administration of President Donald Trump, at any rate. U.S. officials are so concerned that Toshiba Corp. will sell its bankrupt Westinghouse nuclear-reactor unit to a Chinese company that they're looking to block any such sale or find a white knight from an allied country instead, people familiar with the matter told Jennifer Jacobs, Saleha Mohsin and Jennifer A. Dlouhy of Bloomberg News.