1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov March 8, 2019Strategic Competition and Foreign Policy: What is “Political Warfare”?In recent years, scholars have formed a consensus around the notion that the United States has reentered an international strategic competition with other great powers, notably Russia a
2、nd China. This great power competition has political, economic and military dimensions, with potentially far-reaching implications for U.S. foreign and national security policy. Background Most observers of contemporary international security trends contend that the United States and its allies are
3、entering an era of unprecedented and dangerous strategic complexity. In particular, the 2014 Russian invasion of the Crimean peninsula and subsequent proxy war in eastern Ukraine was arguably a watershed moment in international security, as it awakened dormant concerns about an aggressive and revanc
4、hist Russia. Months before Russias Crimea intervention, China began a territorial expansion as well, building artificial islands on disputed features in the South China Sea which it later turned into military outposts. Complicating matters some states are collaborating with non-state proxies (includ
