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A Trump Doctrine of Contradictions
The strategy narrows U.S. ambitions toward homeland security and economic vitality while emphasizing burden-sharing with allies and competition with China, despite internal policy contradictions.
- Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration released the National Security Strategy to Congress, portraying the United States as a preponderant power yet showing incoherence in its global role.
- The NSS shifts away from democracy promotion toward homeland and economic priorities, eschewing democracy talk and focusing on homeland security, economic vitality, industrial capacity, and `restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health`, while lashing out at earlier elites for misguided globalism.
- The NSS commits U.S. forces to deny aggression across the First Island Chain and defend Taiwan, while calling to rebalance trade with China focusing on non-sensitive factors.
- Bargaining among MAGA coalition factions produced uneasy compromises in the National Security Strategy, while sections on economic security and Europe reward economic nationalists and Vice President J.D. Vance.
- A pledge to `organise a burden-sharing network, with our government as convener and supporter` frames longer-term risks as U.S. allies and partners and Zhongnanhai note this transactional stance, while analysts question its ability to sustain American primacy.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right1Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Center
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- 67% of the sources are Center
67% Center
L 25%
C 67%
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