Agreed. We live in a world where military conflicts between large trading nations are unlikely.  Armed conflict is expensive and always has unpredictable outcomes. It has a pretty poor return on investment. Instead, we have proxy wars which minimizes risk and expense.

This is why any scenario regarding a China- US conflict will be based mainly on trade and economics. Trump may be controversial to say the least, but he is a businessman first and foremost. It's clear that China is not the same country that brought its people the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.