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.
Looking back at history, it seems like when one dominant power is in decline and another is rising, war eventually comes. However, at no point does an outright hot war make sense for either side - maybe the difference here is nukes add a certain finality to big wars. So I don't think we'll see an outright war. But what we will see is a new cold war. This is where all the "China bad" propaganda becomes useful to the MIC. Get ready for the military to be an ever-growing slice of the pie. We'll be told we need to give up Social Security, welfare, massive cuts to education spending, stuff like that... all in the name of defending against "evil China".
I also think the US is gonna ramp up covert ops to 11. They will trying to do to China what they did to the USSR - sow internal divisions in the hope of creating breakaway provinces which causes the PRC to collapse in on itself. It won't work but that won't stop the US from trying. Someone else here mentioned this but what the US will definitely try and probably have at least some success in will be to coup governments that try and move their countries into China's orbit.