{"id":9077,"date":"2025-12-14T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/a-velvet-reset-trumps-new-strategy-hands-china-breathing-space\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:15:20","slug":"a-velvet-reset-trumps-new-strategy-hands-china-breathing-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/a-velvet-reset-trumps-new-strategy-hands-china-breathing-space\/","title":{"rendered":"A velvet reset: Trump\u2019s new strategy hands China breathing space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For years, Washington framed China as the defining adversary of the American century. The National Security Strategy released on December 4 has quietly abandoned that posture. At just 33 pages, the document mentions China sparingly and never as an existential threat. Instead, it treats Beijing as a major power with which the United States must reach \u201creciprocity and fairness\u201d in trade.<\/p>\n<p>The shift is deliberate and, from a Chinese perspective, long overdue. After a decade of being cast as the villain in successive Pentagon papers and Biden-era strategies that labelled China a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2025\/12\/a-velvet-reset-trumps-new-strategy-hands-china-breathing-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Washington framed China as the defining adversary of the American century. The National Security Strategy released on December 4 has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}