Competition shouldn't be a zero-sum game

With the United States labeling China its foremost, primary and long-term strategic "rival", and adopting a policy to contain China, China sees the US as the biggest external challenge on road to national rejuvenation. As such, Sino-US relations have entered an era of strategic competition.

The US-triggered trade war reflects only one aspect of the intensified competition between China and the US, especially in the fields of science and technology, military and international relations.

Most observers see the competition as a classic power tussle between an established power and a rising power. But some see it as a competition between two competing ideologies or systems.