The US will also offer “more limited” support to US allies, according to a new national defence strategy document.
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In a significant shift to its security priorities, the US Department of Defense now considers security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere - not China - as its primary concern.
Previous versions of the strategy - published every four years - named the threat posed by China as the top defence priority. Relations with China will now be approached through "strength, not confrontation", the report says.
The defence strategy reinforces recent calls from President Donald Trump, including for greater "burden-sharing" from allies in countering threats posed by Russia and North Korea.
The new 34-page report follows last year's publication of the US National Security Strategy, which said Europe faced civilisational collapse and did not cast Russia as a threat to the US. At the time, Moscow said the document was "largely consistent" with its vision.
By comparison, in 2018, the Pentagon described "revisionist powers", such as China and Russia, as the "central challenge" to US security.
The new strategy calls on American allies to step up, saying partners have been "content" to let Washington subsidise their defence, although it denies the shift signals a US move towards "isolationism".
"To the contrary, it means a focused and genuinely strategic approach to the threats our nation faces," it says.
Washington has long neglected the "concrete interests" of Americans, the report says, adding the US does not want to conflate American interests "with those of the rest of the world – that a threat to a person halfway around the world is the same as to an American."
Instead, it says allies, especially Europe, "will take the lead against threats that are less severe for us but more so for them".
Russia, which launched a full-scale i
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