Balancing Antitrust and National Security Impacts of Foreign Investment in the U.S.

We are in a world where U.S. pursuit of antitrust objectives through a policy of encouraging foreign direct investment is far more complex. On the one hand, public policy toward foreign direct investment increasingly must carefully balance significant tradeoffs: the potential benefits of greater competition with the heightened risks to national security. On the other hand, Washington has been moving in a direction where such tradeoffs are seen as illusory: some U.S. policy makers judge the loss