Commentary
China just beat the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on steel tariffs and is trying to do it a second time on computer chip export controls.
On Dec. 12, China’s Ministry of Commerce filed a new WTO complaint against the controls. Beijing claims they are trade protectionism, when it should be obvious that they contribute to developing U.S. defenses against the Chinese regime’s military aggression.
And the supposed division between economic protection and military defense is now too muddled to act upon, given the developing cold war with China. As former President Donald Trump’s economic team recognized as early as 2018, economic security is national security….