The US is pursuing the geopolitical encirclement of China.
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Encirclement
/ɪnˈsɜː(ɹ)kəlmənt/
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Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement, whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.
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