The Joe Biden administration unveiled its new national security strategy, which calls China the "most consequential geopolitical challenge" to the United States.

The new national security strategy, the first since March 2021, describes how the United States, under President Biden's leadership, plans to advance its vital interests and achieve a free, open, prosperous and secure world.

Officials said the U.S. plans to use all elements of U.S. national power to outperform strategic competitors, solve common problems and shape the rules.

The world is at a tipping point, and the choices the U.S. makes today will shape the terms of how the U.S. is prepared to deal with the significant challenges and opportunities we face in the years ahead, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.

He said the United States has entered a crucial decade and faces two fundamental strategic challenges. Sullivan said the first is to focus on the competition among major powers to shape the future international order, and the second is to address transnational issues that affect people around the world, from climate change to food insecurity and infectious disease, terrorism, energy transition and inflation.

The Biden administration's strategy focuses on investing in the primary sources and tools of American power and influence; building the strongest coalition of nations to enhance our collective influence to shape the global strategic environment and solve common problems; and modernizing and strengthening the United States military so that it is equipped for an era of strategic competition.

Officials said that the most pressing strategic challenge facing the United States comes from powers that layered authoritarian governance on top of a revisionist foreign policy.

The Biden administration warned that the People's Republic of China is the only rival that intends and, increasingly, is capable of changing the international order.