President Trump has started out 2026 with a focus on taking on China’s presence in the Western Hemisphere. His strategy, laid out in the National Security Strategy document made public by the administration on December 4th, 2025, and the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy, which was released last week, puts reasserting strategic dominance over China in the Western Hemisphere as the top concern for national security. This is great news, as under the Biden administration, China was welcomed into the Western Hemisphere and even into our own country while American economic and military power was systematically weakened. We can already see Trump’s strategy in action, from the Maduro capture, which weakened China’s position in Venezuela and protected the US from the threat of Chinese military presence just south of our border, to his trip to the WEF where he laid out the US economic resurgence and trade dominance for the world to see and negotiated a framework deal for increased US access to Greenland, barring China from encroaching on critical Northern sea routes and weakening North American missile defense capabilities. Just this week, Trump intervened using tariffs to ensure that Canada didn’t ratify a disastrous trade deal with China. However, while all of these wins for securing the Western Hemisphere from China are important, the most important work should actually start right here at home.

President Trump’s China strategy cannot succeed abroad until we remove all the influence networks the CCP has built within our own borders. Through President Trump’s return to peace through strength, and his policy of deterrence at the Southern border and beyond, this administration has luckily stopped any influence from flowing into the country, but the damage that was done during the Biden years, from real estate purchases to espionage networks and more, must be addressed head-on. Right now, the CCP is in flux in China, and due to President Trump’s work abroad, stabilizing chaos that China benefited from and reasserting American........

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