Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the launch of the Office of China Coordination, which draws on expertise from across the State Department to help implement a strategy to compete with the People’s Republic of China.

The Office of China Coordination will ensure the country can and will responsibly handle competition with the PRC and promote a vision for an inclusive international system, according to a news release issued Dec. 16.

“Today we launched @StateDept’s new Office of China Coordination. This office draws on expertise from across the department to help implement our comprehensive strategy to responsibly compete with the PRC while advancing an affirmative vision for the region and the world,” Blinken said in a post on Twitter.

He said American diplomacy will be challenged by the scale and scope of the challenge the PRC poses like nothing they’ve seen before, in his remarks made at George Washington University May 26.

The new Office of China Coordination, informally called China House, brings together a group of China experts from the State Department to collaborate with colleagues from every regional bureau and with experts in international security, economics, technology, multilateral diplomacy and strategic communications, according to the release. The release reported this collaboration means better policy from the State Department.

"The Secretary and Department leadership are committed to ensuring we have the talent, tools and resources to successfully execute U.S. policy and strategy towards the PRC as the most complex and consequential geopolitical challenge we face,” the news release said.