{"id":6601,"date":"2025-12-11T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:39:58","slug":"what-the-2025-national-security-strategy-means-for-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/what-the-2025-national-security-strategy-means-for-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"What the 2025 National Security Strategy Means for Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Prof. (Dr.) C. Raja Mohan, Distinguished Professor, MJIAS<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, every new administration arrives with its own ideological coalition and inevitably produces a document verbalizing its ideas of U.S. national security policy. The latest version of the\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf\" target=\"\">National Security Strategy<\/a><\/u>\u00a0(NSS), which was released by the Trump administration last week, is very much part of that tradition. More\u00a0<span lang=\"en-GB\">significant<\/span>, however, is the way in which the document is a\u00a0<span lang=\"en-GB\">departure<\/span>: If past strategy documents\u00a0<span lang=\"en-GB\">reflected<\/span>\u00a0minor variations on a broad post-World War II and post-Cold War foreign-policy consensus, this one marks a dramatic rupture from that consensus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inset-box inset-box--header-text-url inset-box--tag-trump-administration \">\n<div class=\"header\">\n<h4>Trump\u2019s Second Term<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body-text\">\n<p>Ongoing reports and analysis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whether the document is a reliable guide to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s future actions is unclear. But it is undeniably an important milestone in the evolution of the domestic debate about the United States\u2019 relationship with the world\u2014one that captures the worldview of the MAGA movement and reflects the changing American mood. For Asia, the document offers a revealing window into how the second Trump administration understands the Indo-Pacific, treats U.S. alliances, assesses\u00a0China, and imagines U.S. leadership in an era of geopolitical competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/12\/08\/2025-us-national-security-strategy-trump-asia-china-taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Prof. (Dr.) C. Raja Mohan, Distinguished Professor, MJIAS In  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6602,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/6602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/mjias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}