The Office of Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State (DOS) issued a 70-page research report on November 17, which summarized the behaviour of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), analysed the ideological roots behind the behaviour and the vulnerabilities that the Chinese Communist regime faces, and suggested how the United States should respond to China’s challenges. The report is composed of five sections: the China Challenge, China’s Conduct, the Intellectual Source of China’s Conduct, China’s Vulnerabilities, and Securing Freedom. Titled “The Elements of the China Challenge,” the report, which has 20 pages of footnotes, states that “awareness has been growing in the United States and nations around the world that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has triggered "a new era of great-power competition", but said few countries can discern the "specific form of dominance to which the party aspires.” It characterizes the Chinese Communist regime as “modelled on 20th-century Marxist-Leninist dictatorship.” It said "The CCP aims not merely at pre-eminence within the established world order — an order that is grounded in free and sovereign nation-states, flows from the universal principles on which America was founded, and advances U.S. national interests — but to revise the world order fundamentally, placing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the center and serving Beijing’s authoritarian goals and hegemonic ambitions.”