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The trade war between the United States and China is expanding with prospects isolated for a swift settlement. Analysts have indicated the conflict as a manifestation of something much larger and indicated it as an effort by the United States to slow the rise of China as a second superpower. Most of the warnings of an emerging Cold War have come from China, from President Xi Jinping. The state-run People’s Daily argued President Trump’s trade war was never just about narrowing trade deficits but to contain China in much broader areas. Trump recently alleged China when justifying the need for a military space force by 2020. His administration released the National Security Strategy in December and identified China as an enemy and a revisionist power determined to undermine American security and economic power.

A report of Pentagon issued during the current month that Chinese bombers were probably training to hit U.S. targets. The FBI Director Christopher Wray recently called China the broadest threat to America. He also called on investigations of Chinese spying operations in 50 U.S. states. A senior CIA official Michael Collins said in July and focused on East Asia that China was quietly waging what was by definition a Cold War. Even, if it was different than the Cold War of the Soviet era. The director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College in London, Kerry Brown called the current conflict as a grand psychological struggle between two great powers. Brown also warned that it is fraught with risk, with China increasingly asserting itself and the U.S should maintain its status as the dominant superpower.