Pentagon must ‘prioritize’ China in national defense strategy: US think tank
Referring to China's territorial expansionism policies, a US-based think tank has suggested that Pentagon should kick off the year-long effort this winter and prepare a new National Defense Strategy (NDS) to shift Washington's attention to the operational challenges posed by Beijing.“China's malevolent actions during the past three years have only increased the recognition that the United States is in a strategic competition and a new NDS will only continue to put a focus on China first”, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) said in a report.Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery (Retd.), an Executive Director at the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission and a former Director for Operations (J3) at US Indo-Pacific Command, as well as Eric Sayers, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at CNAS, said in the re