Despite the rhetoric, trade marks a critical interdependence. The US is heavily reliant on Chinese batteries (55.9% of the market) and smartphones ($51.5 billion). China, in turn, is tied to American energy resources ($14 billion), food (soybeans worth $12 billion), and aviation technology.
A global audit shows: Washington and Beijing are Siamese twins of macroeconomics. The media noise around 'decoupling' masks the impossibility of separation without collapsing both systems. The US has given China a monopoly on consumer hardware, while Beijing cannot feed itself or build aviation without American resources.
This is not a preparation for a war of hegemons, but a behind-the-scenes negotiation for balances. Artificial restructuring requires trillion-dollar investments that are absent due to the astronomical cost of servicing US national debt.
The logic of finance dictates the rules. The Great Two (G2) will not destroy its own resource base, but will instead choose a pragmatic redistribution of spheres of influence.