U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific and Foreign Threats to the 2020 Elections

…the Indo-Pacific region is a beautiful constellation of nations, each its own bright star, satellites to none-and each one, a people, a culture, a way of life, and a home.

-President Donald J. Trump (2017)

US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific and Foreign Threats to the 2020 Elections, a collection of documents released during the final days of the Trump administration, offers unique insight in the US-China challenge and the different views within the US intelligence community.

• US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific (2018), declassified in January 2021, identifies America’s top security challenge: How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific region and promote a liberal economic order while preventing China from establishing new, illiberal spheres of influence.

• US Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China (2020) describes the US-China challenges.

• Politicization by the Intelligence Community in the 2020 US Elections (January 2021) by the Ombudsman with the Office of the DNI, accuses the CIA of applying a double standard when assessing Chinese vs. Russian election influence.

• Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Elections (January 2021), a letter by John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, poses that China sought to interfere in the 2020 US elections.