Decades of foreign investment only strengthened the Chinese Communist Party.
President Donald Trump at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington on Dec. 4, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
12/5/2025|Updated: 12/5/2025
The White House released President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy on Dec. 5, touting his role in the United States’ shift in its relationship with China and previewing his strategy to regain dominance in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere via financial incentives.
“President Trump single-handedly reversed more than three decades of mistaken American assumptions about China,” the report reads.
Catherine Yang is a reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York.
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