Rush Doshi is currently Director for China in the Biden’s administration’s National Security Council. In his 2021 book, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, he examines that strategy and darkly concludes, rather tentatively, that the Chinese “might” be seeking to establish an “order” that would “involve the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Japan and Korea, the end of American regional alliances, the effective removal of the U.S. Navy from the Western Pacific, deference from China’s regional neighbors, unification with Taiwan, and the resolution of territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas.”

If Doshi has that right, China in recent years has made a whole lot of progress in the wrong direction on achieving those goals. For more detail on China’s failures, see The United States Does Not Need to Contain China | The National Interest.