April 19, 2018

The Trump administration rolled out new policies on Thursday designed to bolster the U.S. arms industry by facilitating more sales to foreign countries, including provisions that will loosen restrictions on the export of American-made drones. 

While previous presidents have taken the U.S. defense industry into consideration when conducting foreign policy, President Trump has made arms sales a centerpiece of his approach, regularly emphasizing how many weapons a country buys as a measure of its commitment to Washington.

That emphasis was on display this week during Trump’s news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in which the president promised to “short-circuit” State Department bureaucracy to speed up sales of U.S. military equipment to allies such as Japan. 

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