If it seems as though China is eclipsing the US in key areas, that has more to do with America's economic and political decline (and the Chinese filling the void) than any aggressive moves on the part of China. For instance: China has contracts in Africa where in return for building roads, their firms get mining rights, because China knows they need alternative sources of Rare Earths and other metals/minerals. Where are American firms making the same offer?
>>>China has absolutely no desire to have an armed conflict with the United States, nor anything else that would upset its reliance on US markets for its cheap manufactured goods. If the US imposed a trade embargo on China, China’s economy would tank overnight. The Chinese “Communists” like money and capitalism too much to allow that to happen.<<<
Amen. It is absolutely true by now.
I have no idea if it is to be true in a couple decades.