Swallowing America’s Pride Would Be Worth It in Japanese Company’s Deal To Buy United States Steel

It’s embarrassing that America’s elites shipped much of our country’s manufacturing overseas in past decades. A little embarrassment is sometimes restorative, though.

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U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant at Braddock, Pennsylvania, in February 2019. AP/Gene J. Puskar, file

“Countries have no friends … only interests” — or so goes the paraphrased version of Lord Palmerston’s statement.

So 19th-century British Empire. 

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