The State Department has a plan for confronting the rise of China and sustaining the United States’s place as the world’s leading superpower.

A 74-page report, The Elements of the China Challenge, was released by the agency’s Policy Planning Staff a couple of days after the Trump administration signaled it was planning to ramp up its pressure on Beijing in the coming weeks, making moves it believes would further the president’s legacy as well as make it politically difficult for President-elect Joe Biden to reverse course.