WASHINGTON–U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a new national security strategy on Monday in which he laid out the case for preparing the country to confront the “revisionist powers” of Russia and China that are challenging the United States and its allies. China and its aggressive rise received particular attention, a challenge that the document describes as a competition between the “free and repressive visions of world order.”
Under the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, the President is legally obligated to submit a report on the U.S. national security strategy to Congress each year. In recent years however, such reports have been made late or not at all. The Obama administration produced just two strategy documents (in 2010 and 2015, respectively) throughout eight years of his presidency.
