Former Korean trade chief: ‘Oversecuritization’ of U.S. trade policy cedes ground to China

Recent U.S. national security decisions to keep certain products out of the U.S. market and prevent foreign ownership in a critical U.S. industry have been insufficiently targeted and risk stifling U.S. innovation and leaving critical U.S. industries in a permanent game of catchup, a former South Korean trade minister tells Inside U.S. Trade . “I'm worried about this ‘oversecuritization,’” Yeo Han-koo, South Korea’s minister for trade from 2021 to 2022 and now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for...