The United States no longer treats China as its top security priority, according to the Pentagon’s 2026 National Defense Strategy, marking a sharp departure from a decade of US policy that cast Beijing as the central threat to American security and economic interests.
Released late on Friday, the 34-page Department of Defense blueprint signals that President Donald Trump’s administration is instead prioritising the “homeland and Western Hemisphere”, aligning military planning with the president’s broader effort to refocus US power closer to home.
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