Conflict and competition is the nature of international affairs, plain and simple.
Any illusion of cooperation exists for an individual state to achieve its own stated goals and desires.
The US is working to defend its status as sole global hegemon, and China is trying to gain more power-- economic, political, and militarily, just as any other state is. Not to mention their very founding principles and ideology is rooted in the demonization of the West and capitalist culture, the US in particular.
The anti-imperialist becomes the imperialist. Isn't that always the course of human political history?
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