US Allies Aren’t Buying Its New Strategies to Confront China
With the release of the US National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, the Trump administration has foreshadowed a much more confrontational relationship with China. But US allies and friends question how well the Trump administration rhetoric relates to strategic reality.
Net result? So far, advantage China.
The rhetoric is clear. The National Security Strategy describes China as a 'revisionist power' that aims 'to shape a world antithetical to U.S. values and interests', 'displace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region', 'reorder the region in its favor', 'expand the reaches of its state-driven economic model', and 'steal US intellectual property'.
The National Defense Strategy (NDS) reiterates the 'central challenge' to US interests as strategic competition with revisionist powers, with China at the top of the list.… Seguir leyendo »