President Trump’s foreign policy is a 180-degree reversal from Joe Biden’s.
That’s what Americans voted for.
And Pete Hegseth just laid down the law to one foreign enemy.
As Swamp digest reports:
Donald Trump has made it clear that he views China as the biggest global threat to the United States.
China wants to expand their communist ideology around the world by subjugating other nations.
Pete Hegseth knows this and it’s why he’s making countering China’s aggression one of the top priorities Secretary of Defense.
And no one can possibly ignore the threat Hegseth sent to China during a recent visit to the Philippines.
According to CNN, “The United States will enhance its military alliance with the Philippines as it aims to ‘reestablish deterrence’ to counter ‘China’s aggression’ in the Indo-Pacific region, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday during a trip to Manila.”
“The US will deploy additional advanced military capabilities for joint training, enhance interoperability for ‘high end operations’ and prioritize defense industrial cooperation, Hegseth told reporters.”
China has been very aggressive in trying to claim control over the South China Sea, much of which belongs to the Philippines.
“The Philippines has been on the front lines of China’s increasingly aggressive posture in Asia. Beijing seeks to assert its claim over the bulk of the South China Sea, despite an international ruling denying its sovereignty over the waterway,” CNN reports.
“The Trump administration, Hegseth pledged, would ‘truly prioritize a shift’ to the Indo-Pacific with the ‘recognition that for the 21st century to be a free century, America needs to stand alongside our allies and partners shoulder to shoulder.’”
This shift to the Indo-Pacific has been sorely needed for a long time, as the foreign policy establishment has turned a blind eye to the rise of China.
There was an attitude for a long time that China would eventually become free because of its capitalist reforms.
But instead, what China became was a deadly combination of economic power and the totalitarianism it adopted in the wake of its communist revolution in the 20th century.
