president-elect Donald Trump‘s pick for national security adviser says the US must work to end conflicts in Europe and the Middle East so the country can confront the “bigger threat” from China, a signal that relations between the superpowers in the coming could continue to fray over the years.

China is the US’s ‘biggest rival’, the Florida congressman Mike Waltz wrote days before the Nov. 5 election in an Economist article co-authored with Matthew Kroenig, a former Pentagon strategist.