White House trade policy shop moves to conduct U.S. infrastructure assessment with defense slant

By Justin Doubleday / October 24, 2018 at 5:24 PM
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- The White House's trade policy office, on the heels of a sweeping defense industrial base assessment, next wants to hone in on the U.S. infrastructure sector and how it can be shored up against potential Chinese intrusions, according to the head of the office. The "next leg" of the defense industrial base assessment released last month is "the issue of infrastructure," Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, told a...

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