I disagree that that there was anything amicable during Biden years. Biden picked up exactly where Trump left off before him and he escalated tensions with stuff like CHIPS act, ban on Chinese EVs and so on. There's been a continuation of policy here across administration since Obama's pivot to Asia when the US decided that China was the main adversary. Things have been steadily escalating, and now they're entering into an openly hostile territory.
You know before America chose Trump, China and America were looking at an eventual amicable passing of the batton as far as who is the larger more important place of business, military, and finance...
...now it's looking more and more like something less amicable will happen.
There's only two ways super powers trade places in the ranks, peacefully or with a war.... And I suspect the world will be greatly damaged if there's a war between these two nations in particular.
China is no paper tiger anymore, and as for their fighting spirit, they had a civil war paused it when WW2 broke out (because both their sides hated the Japanese), then went back to their civil war after WW2.
It would be a rough fight for us all.
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