What South Korea should learn about targeting US firms

The Trump administration has an increasingly low tolerance for foreign governments whose behavior is at odds with the president’s America First agenda. 

This is the right instinct. Because “America” isn’t just our people, our military, or our government. It is our businesses that operate all around the world. 

So, when a foreign government mistreats an American business, the White House correctly feels the same about that as it would about a faraway government arresting our citizens or threatening our military.  

Commercial strength is national strength. When American firms succeed abroad, they advance U.S. interests, just as diplomats do. Caracas found out in the most extreme way what happens when a country treats American companies like its own private piggy bank; Brussels, with its attack on U.S.