If one were to distill Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy- November 2025 worldview into a single sentence, it would likely read: win the economic future, avert a military catastrophe. It sounds almost modest. Yet behind this slogan lies a sweeping redesign of how Washington understands China, how it will marshal its alliances, and how it hopes to shape the political landscape of Asia for decades. Trump presidency, armed with the National Security Strategy, November, 2025, would not simply adjust America’s Asia policy—it would rewrite its operating code. And that rewrite has profound implications not just for the U.S.–China rivalry but for South Asia’s fragile balance of power.

Correcting “Three Decades of Error”

At the heart of Trump’s National Security Strategy is a scathing indictment of previous administrations. For over thirty years, Washington believed that integrating China into global markets would nudge it into a “rules-based order.” The bet was that open trade, free investment flows, and outsourced manufacturing would gradually liberalize Beijing.

Trump’s strategists argue the opposite happened. China leveraged globalization to become richer and more assertive, while America lost industries, intellectual property, and strategic leverage. In their telling, U.S. elites misread China’s intentions and underestimated its ambitions. Trump, by contrast, “corrected” those assumptions.

This ideological shift sets the stage for a far more competitive Indo-Pacific strategy. And it begins with a simple demographic and economic truth: the Indo-Pacific is the world’s new power center. Nearly half the global GDP is generated in this region. Whoever leads here (technologically, militarily, commercially) shapes global destiny.

The Trump administration will try to ensure that the United States, not China, occupies that commanding height.

Economic Rebalancing as a Strategic Weapon

Economic leverage lies at the center of Trump’s plan. The U.S.–China........

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