Navarro touts new arms transfer policy as a way to reduce trade reliance on China

/ April 25, 2018 at 9:30 AM
Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, said on Tuesday that the administration’s new conventional arms policy is a way for the U.S. boost exports to markets dominated by countries like China and Russia. “Providing U.S. allies with greater access to U.S.-produced arms will also reduce their alliance on not just Chinese knockoffs but also on Russian systems,” Navarro said during an April 24 event at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, adding that such...

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