Read the excerpt below, then answer the question that follows.

"This past year saw far-reaching results from our new policies for peace. By continuing to revitalize our traditional friendships, and by our missions to Peking and to Moscow, we were able to establish the base for a new and more durable pattern of relationships among the nations of the world."

~ President Richard Nixon, Second Inaugural Address, January 1973

The excerpt best illustrates which approach to foreign policy?
Group of answer choices:

détente
containment
the domino theory
massive retaliation

détente