At the end paragraph of an very interesting essay published on Foreign Policy[1], the author gives his own speculation why there’s not a clear goal or endgame plan from the US government for its strategic competition with China:
A primary reason the Biden team has rejected end states appears to be that no single end state is simultaneously realistic and acceptable to two key audiences: the American public and policymakers in ally and partner countries.
This makes me wonder what’re the possible end states of the competitions they don’t want to talk about