National security strategy

Jiang treats this week's strategy document as the clearest public statement of the Trump-era imperial pivot from liberal rhetoric to direct power and allied extraction.

Jiang rejects the reading that Trump's national security strategy means U.S. retreat into spheres of influence; instead, he says America will maintain empire by abandoning liberal multilateral institutions and using divide-and-rule power politics.

Jiang says the American empire will not peacefully fade but will switch from liberal multilateral language to naked national self-interest, explicit treatment of allies as vassals, and wider pressure on China.

Jiang rejects the idea that the US national security strategy is a hemispheric retreat and instead reads it as a harder imperial doctrine freed from liberal multilateral limits.

He says the White House's recent national security strategy shows Americans are not optimistic about Europe and see it as financially fragile while the Ukraine war is effectively lost.

Jiang says the current U.S. national security strategy effectively contains a 'Trump corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine, under which Trump will actively enforce American exclusivity over the Western Hemisphere.

Jiang says Trump's recently published National Security Strategy treats the whole Western Hemisphere as part of the American empire.

Jiang says a newly published American national security strategy shows the United States no longer treats multilateral rules as the main organizing principle and instead openly prioritizes national self-interest.

Jiang says the revised U.S. strategy abandons ideological talk in favor of naked self-interest and economic competition, effectively imitating China's developmental style while marshaling allied resources against it.