The White House released President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy on Dec. 5, touting his role in the United States’ shift in its relationship with China and previewing his strategy to regain dominance in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere via financial incentives.
“President Trump single-handedly reversed more than three decades of mistaken American assumptions about China,” the report reads.
Rather than facilitating openness and democracy in China, the decades of investment only strengthened the authoritarian regime, it said.
“China got rich and powerful, and used its wealth and power to its considerable advantage. American elites—over four successive administrations of both political parties—were either willing enablers of China’s strategy or in denial,” the report states….