Why China May Be Emboldened By America's 2025 National Security Strategy

The 2025 National Security Strategy reaffirms core American commitments like Taiwan's status quo and alliance-building in Asia, but its explicit rejection of U.S. dominance everywhere in the world, coupled with ambiguous language around "outsize influence" for large countries and a heavy Western Hemisphere focus, may inadvertently signal to China that a regional sphere of influence in Asia is more attainable than intended. The administration has an opportunity to clarify these ambiguities in the follow-on policy documents still to come.

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