Sen. J. D. Vance (R-Ohio) sympathizes with Rust Belt voters who have lost jobs to deindustrialization, and can gain their trust.
Pittsburgh, and the country, can benefit better if Nippon, and not Cleveland-Cliffs, buys U.S. Steel – for Nippon has better technology.
The American defense industrial base shrunk critically after the Cold War ended. America now needs to rebuild it.
The U.S. defense industrial base is not the monster of popular imagination – nor adequate to supply the military for a great nation.
China will never give up coal, because it has too much of it, and it has too many productive uses for them to stop using it.