China's Military Emergence and the Containment School in Foreign Policy of the U.S: An Explanation from the Perspective of the Balance of Threats

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1 Shiraz university

2 Tehran university

10.22099/ijas.2025.52742.1031

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The performance of China's military sector in recent decades has turned the strategic competition between the United States and China into one of the most significant challenges in the international system. For this reason, academic circles have also placed new research on the agenda of their studies to explain the dimensions of these developments. The main question of this article is: What factors since 2010 have strengthened the containment school in the military aspect of U.S. foreign policy towards China? In response, the main hypothesis of the research is based on the proposition that the perception of China's increasing military power as a threat, along with the intensification of this country's revisionist approaches, has reinforced the policy of containment in U.S. military strategies. This research utilizes a trend analysis method and is based on library and internet data. The findings indicate that the increasing growth of China's military capabilities, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, has directed the United States towards redefining its containment policies. In this context, the article relies on the paradigm of realism and the theory of threat balance to present evidence of the rise of China's military power and its implications for the international order.

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Iranian Journal of Asian Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 31 March 2025

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