What the 2025 National Security Strategy Means for Asia

The MAGA revolution in U.S. foreign policy brings good news and bad.

Putin, Modi, and Xi at the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit December 8, 2025, 12:12 PM

Trump’s Second Term

Ongoing reports and analysis

In Washington, every new administration arrives with its own ideological coalition and inevitably produces a document verbalizing its ideas of U.S. national security policy. The latest version of the National Security Strategy (NSS), which was released by the Trump administration last week, is very much part of that tradition. More significant, however, is the way in which the document is a departure: If past strategy documents reflected minor variations on a broad post-World War II and post-Cold War foreign-pol

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