U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration published its long-awaited national security strategy report on October 12, according to which the country is now in the early years of a decisive decade that will determine the direction of the world and impact the security and prosperity of its people for generations to come. Although “Russia poses an immediate threat to the free and open international system,” China “harbors the intention and, increasingly, the capacity to reshape the international order,” the report read.
The U.S.’s strategy toward China, based on the arguments that China remains its major geopolitical competitor and the future international order depends on competition with China, constituted a core part of the report’s narrative.
Outcompeting China?
The third part of the report focused on
