Patrick M. Cronin
Donald Trump’s inauguration as the forty-seventh president of the United States marks the beginning of a new era of superpower competition.
Last week, Washington experienced a fleeting sense of normalcy with Senate confirmation hearings and President Joe Biden’s farewell address. Even the theatrics of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth’s hearing and Biden’s warnings of a “tech-industrial complex” seemed restrained compared to the political storm that is expected to follow Trump’s inauguration at noon on Monday.
In his second inaugural address and through a series of executive orders, President Trump will unequivocally assert that U.S.A., Inc. is under new management.
Monday also signals the start of what Beijing once described as a “new type of great power relations.” Although this may be round two of the Trump-Xi matchup, there is no doubt that the two leaders’ ice-breaking phone call last Friday represented the opening jockeying for strategic advantage between the two most powerful men in the world.
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