The dying serpent always bites, and dying empires often engage in pointless and self-harming wars on their way out.
Overall there’s nothing to be worried about imo, China’s already passed the US in all the important metrics, and as long as it continues to link itself tightly with the US economy ( they even occasionally will do less than optimal trade deals with the US, as a long term strategy to avoid war ), we can avoid a nuclear war.
The dying serpent always bites, and dying empires often engage in pointless and self-harming wars on their way out.
Overall there’s nothing to be worried about imo, China’s already passed the US in all the important metrics, and as long as it continues to link itself tightly with the US economy ( they even occasionally will do less than optimal trade deals with the US, as a long term strategy to avoid war ), we can avoid a nuclear war.