Media: Trump administration seeks to shift strategic focus from Ukraine to Pacific

The Trump administration is increasingly eager to pivot its strategic attention away from Ukraine and towards pressing concerns in the Pacific region.

Over the weekend, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a stark warning at a security conference in Singapore, stating that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could be "imminent," Caliber.Az reports per Axios.

Ukraine’s ongoing battlefield ingenuity continues to offer crucial real-time insights into the nature of modern, asymmetric warfare. This evolving dynamic has also raised fresh alarms among national security experts about the potential for commercial infrastructure to be repurposed for covert military use.

A recent example, Operation Spiderweb, highlights growing concerns surrounding Chinese container ships docked in US ports. The Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power last year warned:

"It is possible [China] is developing a launcher that can fit inside a standard commercial shipping container for covert employment of [missiles] aboard merchant ships."

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s demonstrated ability to coordinate military strikes across vast distances within Russia has laid bare the fragility of domestic security illusions. The Ukrainians are executing, in real time, what Pentagon war planners have only modelled on paper.

Ukrainian presidential adviser Iryna Vereshchuk underscored the evolving nature of warfare: "This is exactly what an asymmetric war looks like. This is exactly what the wars of the future will look like."

By Aghakazim Guliyev