1-It insists upon a clear-eyed focus on Russia and China as greater potential threats than ISIS or Al Qaeda.
2-In true Mattis-like fashion, it describes the importance of preserving American operational flexibility and unpredictability (as underscored in the fact that the main body of the document is classified).
The proposed U.S. tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, if implemented, could harm the world’s second-largest economy, said Piyush Gupta, CEO of Singapore’s DBS Bank. That’s because the targeted Chinese goods include a greater number of finished products, which can be replaced by similar ones from other sources, he said.