Trump's China comments to Musk hint at pragmatic approach: Analysts - Defense Priorities

Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities—a think tank that advocates for restraint within U.S. foreign policy—described Trump’s threshold for engaging U.S. military forces as “very different from Biden’s—detached from concerns of protecting democracy and the so-called rules-based order.”

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