I really believe that extensive international trade between the us and china will have a good tampering effect on potential war between the two countries. The

I really believe that extensive international trade between the us and china will have a good tampering effect on potential war between the two countries. The article could be interpreted thus: Extensive international trade between the us and china will have a good tampering effect on trade war between the two countries. Chinese building of military bases in the south china sea against the wishes of your neighbors and and asserting your power won't help anyone to trust china The long term plan of US strategic planners is to keep China bottled up behind their coastal waters with the help of Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and other allies and neutral parties who want to avoid Chinese hegemony. As a distant hegemon, the US is much preferred. On the other hand, China wants to realize the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere envisioned by pre-WWII imperial Japan, but with China as the head and local hegemon.