‘Stunning reversal’: Pentagon drops China as top threat in ‘dramatic’ new defense strategy

The Pentagon on Friday night released a long-awaited National Defense Strategy that marks a “stunning reversal” from decades of U.S. policy by shifting the focus away from China and toward defending the U.S. homeland and the Western Hemisphere.

That’s according to a report in Politico, which added that the new Trump administration strategy breaks sharply from both Democratic and Republican administrations – including President Donald Trump’s first White House term.

“The National Defense Strategy ...