I hope you’re right. However, the only reliable way to stop a conflict with someone who desires your destruction is to kill them first.We could actually stop the "inevitable conflict with China" if we wanted to.
We'd just need some actual guts to make facts on the ground permanent and stop pandering to greedy corporations.
We'd also need to purge our own ranks of all the CCP controlled, funded, bribed and influenced entities that shape policy in this country.
We'd need to have reasonable and fair hard boundaries and lines that are fair to both sides and be willing to stick to them with a big stick if needed.
We'd also need to stop putting special interests and the profits of our corporations first.