Its becoming clear that China is on track to match or overtake the USA as a global superpower. Since like half of our economy is based on Chinese imports - is there even anything the bourgeoisie / military / intelligence agencies can do about it? Do you think we're going to move more towards conflict or is China going to pimp slap us and tell us to know our role or they won't make any iphones for us or whatever.
Real conflict seems very unlikely but there are psychos like John Bolton who will refuse to accept that USA isn't numba 1 anymore.
They'll be bad if the US doesn't get its shit handled. Right now the establishment of both major parties is fully in agreement on "let's have a new cold war" without recognizing that the conditions of the first one are vastly different than one with China would be. The cold war against a globally isolated USSR recovering from WW2 is a vastly different proposition than a cold war against a globally connected China that the West has been shipping their economy to for 30 years.
Unfortunately, I don't see anyone in current leadership speaking out against this new cold war.