@cjd If that ever happens it would be fake. James Corbett has done extensive research showing that the US/China rivalry (and the NATO/BRICS rivalry as a whole) is fake and both countries/alliances support the exact same agendas.
https://corbettreport.com/the-multipolar-world-order-is-the-new-world-order/
The cheapest possible attack is to just lie, and if there is actually a real power struggle going on, it's very convenient to just lie and say it's theater so that people will be disempowered from weighing in on that struggle.
Recall Epstein was commenting about getting rid of Xi and putting "our guys" in China...