Declassified Document Outlines Trump Administration’s Secret Pacific Strategy
"...The document sets out the key national security challenges for the United States in the region, including “How to maintain U.S. strategic primacy… and promote a liberal economic order while preventing China from establishing new, illiberal spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of cooperation to promote regional peace and prosperity.” It also provides a warning that “China will circumvent international rules and norms to gain an advantage” when it comes to the strategic competition between the two powers..."