When President-elect Donald Trump takes over as commander in chief again on Jan. 20, a bevy of problems and challenges will confront him. People are still battling a cost-of-living crisis. Wars are raging in Europe and the Middle East. Great concern exists across the United States about the growing power of China and what it may mean for war and peace in Asia and America’s geopolitical strength. The Biden administration’s handling of immigration seems to have resulted primarily in total chaos, leaving people looking for solutions that may be trickier to identify and deploy than the incoming administration believes.
One thing that should be simple is reversing President Joe Biden’s absurd policy on the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel and allowing that marriage of companies to proceed.
U.S. and Nippon reached their deal over a year ago, on Dec. 18, 2023. Fast-forward 12 months, and the Biden administration is reportedly planning to block the merger on national security grounds.
It should surprise exactly no one that an economically illiterate administration, which is headed by a barely compos mentis individual and has gravely mismanaged America’s relationships around the globe, might have failed to notice that Japan is a key U.S. ally and we’re 80 years on from World War II. Yet here we are, and it will be down to Trump to reintroduce a measure of rationality and sense to what has evidently been a flawed decision-making process.
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