Trump Pivots to Treat China as a Peer Superpower, Alarming US Allies

—The Trump administration has made a sweeping foreign policy shift, embracing China as an equal partner in a new "G2" framework rather than treating it as a strategic adversary. Arms sales to Taiwan have been frozen, Nvidia chip exports to China have been unlocked, and Taiwan was barely mentioned in recent high-level talks. Allies from Taiwan to India were alarmed by the reorientation, which marks a sharp reversal from Trump's first-term hawkishness on China.