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A Trump Doctrine of Contradictions
The strategy prioritizes competition with China across multiple domains and calls for economic and military measures to restore U.S. primacy, emphasizing burden-sharing with allies.
- Last week, the Trump administration released a National Security Strategy prioritising homeland security, economic vitality and `restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health`.
- Wrangling within the MAGA coalition reflects ideological splits and uneasy compromises among primacists, prioritisers, ideologues, isolationists, pro‑business, and economic nationalists, amid backlash against globalism.
- Concrete sections instruct to `organise a burden-sharing network, with our government as convener and supporter`, balance trade with China on non-sensitive factors, and maintain a military to deter aggression in the First Island Chain including Taiwan and the South China Sea.
- By law the President must submit a National Security Strategy to Congress, seeking allies to share costs while positioning the US as an offshore balancer, though observers question this appeal's sustainability.
- The NSS positions American primacy as central despite narrowing ambitions; allies and partners are likely alarmed while its incoherence may take some of the edge off Zhongnanhai's response.
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Leaning Left4Leaning Right2Center18Last UpdatedBias Distribution75% Center
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- 75% of the sources are Center
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L 17%
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