Nippon Steel Rejection Shows National Security Means Whatever You Want
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(Bloomberg) — For months, United States Steel Corp. argued that selling out to Japanese-owned Nippon Steel Corp. was the only way to survive. President Joe Biden thought different, concluding that even a takeover by a company based in close ally Japan wasn’t enough to allay national-security concerns.
Such is the new politics of global trade and investment.