James Kynge

And I have been talking to Chinese, well, think tank people last week in London.

And I think they are really very pleased about this because the previous two national security strategies mentioned that the US wanted to oppose China's desire to, quote, shape a world

antithetical to US values and interests.

This version dropped that completely.

And as you mentioned earlier, it started to talk about economics a great deal more.

And so the key sentence in this one was that America wanted to be working to, quote, rebalance America's economic relationship with China.

Just look at how much more mild that sentence is compared to describing China as,

antithetical to US values and interests around the world.

So what I think is happening is that Trump is focusing more on doing deals and a lot less on American ideals for the world.

We've left that Reagan-esque type of America as a shining city on the hill, a beacon for mankind, an ideal for global aspirations, the leader of the free world.

All of that rhetoric, well, and it was a lot more than rhetoric, really.

From Reagan's time until now, it's been a great deal more than rhetoric.

It's been followed up with military might and economic muscle.

This is the world that Pax Americana has created.

And now we're just talking about doing better deals and America focusing on its economic interests in the world.

So if this holds, and that is a big if, then it really is a big change.

And I must just say, Alice, that I think your phrase of non-hemispheric influences is going to be a zeitgeist for 2026.

I think that we are going to be talking about re-hemisphering the world a lot more over the coming months.

It's a bit like the Monroe Doctrine of old is going to get reborn in some shape or form, or at least rhetorically reborn.

I have a feeling...