Last November, the White House released its National Security Strategy of the United States that laid out the Trump administration’s strategy for the Americas. In it, the strategy imperative for the region said that one of Washington’s key goals was to make sure the Americas remains “free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets,” and was supportive of U.S. access to critical supply chains. China wasn’t mentioned by name as the hostile adversary, but China is precisely who the White House had in mind.