>>213030784Yea, the last four years of American-Chinese relations have been rocky as fuck and filled with China wanting to expand influence and the U.S. desperately trying to prevent that.
Trump hasn't really broken the dam so much as he's done nothing to really calm tensions, current grievances, or offer a way forward.
The average Chinese geopolitic expert (on both sides) feel that the trajectory is war in some form when it's not really necessary.
It's just neither party are actually backing down on the stuff that actually matters.