You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 7th of March.

The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has launched an unprecedented attack on the US,

accusing it of trying to encircle China.

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China's leader rarely, if ever, criticises the US directly.

But at the latest Communist Party Congress, President Xi Jinping said this,

Western countries led by the United States have implemented all-round containment,

encirclement and suppression of China.

He was speaking at a closed meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,

and his comments were first reported by the state news agency Xinhua.

At a later news conference, the foreign minister,

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