Trade deals can bundle massive, earmarked investment commitments from allies into U.S. strategic industries. This turns diplomacy into a coordinated capital stack that offsets foreign industrial-policy advantages.
— It links geopolitics to domestic reindustrialization by making allied finance a core lever of supply-chain strategy.
Bentley Allan
2025.09.09
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The article argues the 'only path forward' is cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean‑energy investment and infrastructure, echoing the proposal to bundle allied capital commitments into strategic industries via trade/industrial agreements.
Julius Krein
2025.08.20
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Reported investment pledges in recent Japan ($550B) and Korea ($350B) agreements.
Oren Cass
2025.08.18
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly said Chinese investment pledges are 'off the table' in trade talks while citing Japan, South Korea, and the EU as the partners making large commitments—explicitly echoing a strategy of bundling trade deals with allied capital to reshore critical industries away from China.