The part where it is a war, is the demand that companies sell products in China that are on US sanctions list. That isn't typical. In order to get approved you have to do something that would undermine the US policy and have your firm hit with sanctions. I don't think pretending things are normal is helpful because it stifles the conversation on the huge fork in the road the US and China faces in terms of peaceful coexistence or all out war. If we're going to come to a peaceful solution then it is important that we have a real debate. What's at stake has to be clear. Otherwise we're all going to stumble into a war like in 1914. I think part of the reason the situation now is so dangerous, is that for business reasons, people kept insisting there were no stakes at all, that there was no conflict. So it's all been much quieter military buildup on both sides. Business says we need to make money, so the problem gets delegated exclusively to Pentagon which isn't as loud as the business lobby.