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There is, however, efforts on both sides to weaken that trade reliance though.
China wants to open up more of the world (especially Africa) to its markets, and the US wants to become less dependent on Chinese products.
But, we're going to probably remain too intertwined to go to war any time in the next 50-100 years.
There is a political and economic rivalry between
China and the US which in some ways resembles the Cold War, in other ways it is more like the pre-ww1 great power rivalries. I don’t see any evidence that a hot war in likely in the near to medium term unless us politicians really wanted it to happen >

We are each other's biggest trading partners. Never going to let war upset the apple cart.