This would entail a strategy not of containment, but of "roll-back, " aimed at denying the odious regime in Beijing the political legitimacy, the financial underwriting, and the military advantages of "partnership" with the United States and thus increasing the costs of PRC-repression tactics at home and adventurism abroad.

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On this point, the U.S. will not only pay attention to what the PRC says, but will also use all methods to achieve surveillance of PRC military production and military deployment.

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Also, travels by internal security chief and Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang have been seen as indicating efforts of a conservative bloc in the party leadership from the security, military, and propaganda sectors to assert itself in PRC foreign policy, an interpretation that may aid in explaining the uneven but persistent evidence of hard-line trends in that arena over the past year and a half.

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