The Biden administration’s forthcoming national security strategy will consider China to be the most likely nation to become embroiled in an armed conflict with the United States, according to one expert. China’s size and global reach, however, means that the United States’ strategy of the last 30 years, to contain competitors and deny them objectives, is declining in efficacy. “That denial approach is a very handy way to try to deter someone, but it really only works when you’re the predominant military power,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think tank, during a recent interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider” program. “The U.S. got used to that [idea] in the post-Cold War period, of being the biggest kid on the block.” Clark’s comments followed the release of a factsheet by the Pentagon that outlined the new national defense strategy, a document that complements the forthcoming …