Nadia Schadlow is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. As U.S. deputy national security advisor for strategy in the first Trump administration, she led the drafting and publication of the administration’s first National Security Strategy in 2017. On Thursday eveningDecember 4, 2025., the White House released its new National Security Strategy. In this Q&A, Schadlow and I discussed what’s changed — and what hasn’t — on China policy in th