Is America in a New Cold War with China?

A cold war, by definition, is a state of political tension and military rivalry between nations that stops short of full-scale war. It typically involves ideological, geopolitical, and economic strains between two or more nations but it never results in direct fighting. Usually a cold war would arise between two very powerful countries, such as the United States and China, which realize that an all out war would have an outcome that is a lot …

…conflicts. It seems that every move that US and China makes is a step closer to war, a cold war that is, since both sides know perfectly well that a total war would be detrimental to all. Perhaps their intentions are not hostile but it just seems that way since they are just trying to expand their influence little by little. Even if that is the case, one country's gain is the other country's loss.