Pretty likely, I think, it'd be a geographically restricted war.
The countries wouldn't fire nukes against each other's mainlands but maybe against each other's fleets. Pretty likely
The countries wouldn't fire nukes against each other's mainlands but maybe against each other's fleets. Pretty likely
I don’t think geographically restricting a war is even possible, really. The US’s typical game plan involves hitting the enemy’s decision-making capabilities faster than they can react. That goes out the window if we can’t hit each other’s mainlands. A war where we don’t get to use our strongest trick and China keeps their massive industrial base is an absurd losing one that the US would be totally nuts to sign up for.
Anyway, we and China can be perfectly good peaceful competitors.