The Trump team has prepared legally required transition memos describing policy challenges, but there are no discussions about actions they could take or pause. A second official tells CNN their goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out. It's a strategy that radically breaks with past practice, could raise national security risks and will surely compound challenges for the Biden team -- but it could also backfire. ChinaChina hawks in the Trump administration believe there are actions they can take now that will box Biden in, one administration official said. "The calculation of the Trump team is that will be too politically costly and that will deter the Biden team from even trying, but a lot of Democrats will be unhappy to see Biden not undo this," Parsi said.
