New script with old logic? Decoding the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy

新剧本,旧逻辑?解码2025年美国国家安全战略

World Today

2025-12-12

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Softer rhetoric on China, but an intensified drive for economic and technological supremacy. A renewed Monroe Doctrine and a Western Hemisphere that tops America national priorities—is the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy a real shift in American foreign policy, or just old wine in new bottles? In this episode, we explore how America’s new National Security Strategy affects China-U.S. relations and what it means for Global South countries and the broader world order. Host Xu Yawen is joined by Zhao Hai, Director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Wang Haolan, Research Assistant at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis; Clifford Kiracofe, Washington-based author and former Senior Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; and George Tzogopoulos, Director of EU-China Programmes and Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute of Nice.
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  • Softer rhetoric on China, but an intensified drive for economic and technological supremacy.

  • The renewed Monroe Doctrine and the Western Hemisphere that helps American national priorities is the 2025 U.S.

  • National Security Strategy, a real shift in American foreign policy.

  • or just the old one in new bottles.

  • Welcome to World Today, the panel discussion with Min Xu Awen in Beijing.

  • The White House has unveiled its 2025 US National Security Strategy,

  • laying out America's strategic blueprint for the coming years.

  • On the surface, the document tones down confrontational language toward China,

  • instead framing Beijing primarily as an economic and technological competitor.

  • At the same time, the strategy places the Western Hemisphere as America's top priority,

  • invoking a modernized the Monroe Doctrine and what it calls a Trump Corollary.

  • How will America's new national security strategy affect China-US relations?

  • Can the US push its allies to show their more security burdens?

  • What does the strategy mean for global south countries and the world order?

  • Today, we will explore these questions with four distinguished guests.

  • Dr.

  • Zhao Hai, Director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy,

  • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

  • Mr.

  • Wang Haolan, Research Assistant at Asia Society Policy Institute Center for China Analysis.