Trump’s 2025 Strategy: The End of American Primacy and the Rise of Transactional Realism in Asia
December 9, 2025
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy signifies a significant break from the post-World War II international order by rejecting the aim of “permanent American domination” and shifting towards a focus on reindustrialization and “America First” policies, moving the U.S. from upholding norms to aggressive commercial competition in the Indo-Pacific.