“We cannot deter China in this state of industrial atrophy,” Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., declared on Tuesday at the fifth National Conservatism Conference in Washington.

The West Virginia lawmaker, who some see as a rising star in the Republican Party, outlined how it would take U.S. reindustrialization to credibly deter China in an age of uncertainty about the fate of Taiwan and threats across the globe.

Moore detailed the current advantages the Chinese Communist Party has over the United States. 

“China produces more than half of the world’s steel, fueling its infrastructure and military. We’ve let our steel industry atrophy, importing from abroad, while our steel mills rust. This is not just........

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