2025 White House - Comprehensive Interpretation of the U.S. National Security Strategy!

The White House released a new version of the National Security Strategy, with many statements worth noting. On December 10, the U.S. military news website Defense One reported that the publicly released National Security Strategy is the so-called unclassified version, while a full version had been circulating earlier. The key points of this 'full version' (i.e., the unpublished version) include: competition with China, withdrawal from European defense, and a shift of focus towards the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. has proposed new ways to play a leadership role on the world stage and new methods to influence Europe's future through 'cultural values.' The proposals in the full National Security Strategy go further, suggesting the creation of a new major powers organization, unbound by the various ideological 'constraints' of the G7. This newly formed organization is called 'Core 5' (C5), consisting of the United States, China, Russia, India, and Japan, all of which are countries with populations exceeding 100 million, without involving Europe at all! The full National Security Strategy devotes considerable space to discussing the failures of U.S. hegemony. The document states: 'Hegemony is a misguided pursuit and is unachievable.' In this context, 'hegemony' refers to a country leading the world and using soft power to compel other countries to accept its leadership. Given the uniqueness of this strategy, we have summarized the main points for readers to understand.

1. Introduction: Redefining U.S. Strategy 1. Misconceptions and Corrections in U.S. Strategy: The pursuit of 'permanent global dominance' by U.S. diplomatic policy elites after the Cold War led to vague strategic goals, dispersed resources, and excessive expansion into areas unrelated to national interests (such as endless wars and the erosion of international organization sovereignty). Trump's correction: By adhering to the 'America First' principle, refocusing the strategy on core national interests, emphasizing the alignment of goals and means, and avoiding resource waste. 2. Core Strategic Issues Three core questions: What should the U.S. pursue? What means are available? How to combine goals and means to formulate a feasible strategy?

2. Core Goals of the U.S. 1. Overall Goals National Security and Sovereignty: Protecting territory, people, economy, and way of life from military, economic, and cultural threats. Border and Immigration Control: Fully controlling borders to prevent illegal immigration and cross-border threats (drugs, espionage). Military Advantage: Building the strongest military to ensure nuclear deterrence and missile defense systems. Economic and Industrial Strength: Maintaining the largest economy and industrial base globally, promoting energy, technology, and supply chain autonomy. Cultural Health: Revitalizing the American spirit, protecting traditional family and work values. 2. Foreign Policy Interests Western Hemisphere: Implementing the 'Monroe Doctrine Trump Corollary' to prevent external forces from intervening and combat drug and immigration threats. Indo-Pacific Region: Ensuring freedom of navigation, maintaining supply chain security, and deterring economic predatory behavior. Europe: Supporting allies' security and rebuilding European civilizational confidence. Middle East: Preventing hostile forces from controlling energy and avoiding endless wars. Technological Leadership: Leading standards in key areas such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

3. Means to Achieve Goals 1. U.S. Advantageous Resources Political and Economic System: Flexible political system, the world's largest economy, leading financial and technology industries. Military and Alliances: The strongest military, a broad network of allies. Geography and Culture: Secure geographical location, abundant resources, 'soft power' influence. Domestic Policy Support: Tax cuts, energy development, supply chain control, technology investment. 2. Strategic Principles America First: Focus on core national interests, avoid excessive expansion. Strength through Peace: Achieve deterrence through economic, technological, and military advantages. Non-Interventionism: Respect the sovereignty of other countries, set high intervention standards. Fair Responsibility: Require allies to bear defense spending (such as the NATO 5% GDP target). Economic Security: Balance trade, re-industrialization, energy dominance, and maintain financial advantages.

4. Regional Strategies A. Western Hemisphere: Monroe Doctrine Trump Corollary Goals: Prevent external forces (such as China and Russia) from intervening, control immigration and drug flows. Means: Military Adjustments: Strengthening the Coast Guard, targeted military deployments. Economic Diplomacy: Weakening competitors' economic influence through tariffs and reciprocal agreements. Infrastructure Competition: Replacing 'low-cost foreign aid' with American technology. B. Asia: Economic Competition and Military Balance Economic Core: Rebalancing U.S.-China trade, ending predatory economic behavior (subsidies, intellectual property theft). Unite allies (Quad mechanism) to deter economic coercion and protect supply chains. Military Deterrence: Deterring Taiwan Strait conflicts, maintaining military advantage in the first island chain. Requesting Japan and South Korea to increase defense investments and strengthen presence in the Western Pacific. C. Europe: Rebuilding Civilizational Confidence Issues: Economic stagnation, erosion of sovereignty, immigration shocks, dependence on Russia. Goals: Promoting European self-reliance in defense, ending dependence on the U.S. Supporting pro-American parties and resisting regulatory strangulation policies. Promoting energy and market openness, combating mercantilism. D. Middle East: Burden Shifting and Peacebuilding Transition: From military intervention to economic cooperation, ending 'nation-building' wars. Core Interests: Ensuring energy security, combating terrorism, ensuring Israel's safety. Means: Weakening Iran's influence (such as the 'Midnight Hammer' operation). Expanding the Abraham Accords to promote peace in the Arab world. E. Africa: Investment as an Alternative to Aid Goals: Alleviating conflicts, leveraging natural resource potential. Means: Resolving conflicts through negotiations (such as Congo-Rwanda). Shifting to an investment growth model, combating Islamic terrorism.

5. Key Points in Strategy Implementation Priorities: Ending large-scale immigration, strengthening border security. Protecting core rights (freedom of speech, religious freedom). Requiring allies to share responsibilities fairly (such as defense spending). Economic Tools: Tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements. Alliance Financing (such as the International Development Finance Corporation) supporting strategic investments. In summary, the U.S. 2025 National Security Strategy centers around 'America First,' ensuring U.S. global dominance in the 21st century through reducing non-core interventions, strengthening economic and military means, and restructuring regional alliances.

Its innovations include: 1. Economic Security: Viewing supply chains, energy, and technology as core to national security. 2. Responsibility Transfer: Forcing allies to bear regional security responsibilities. 3. Flexible Deterrence: Based on strength, reducing conflict risks through unconventional diplomacy (such as Trump's facilitation of peace among 12 nations). This document marks the shift of the U.S. from 'global police' to 'selective hegemony,' focusing on the Western Hemisphere, Indo-Pacific, and critical technology competition while pragmatically handling affairs in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.