PROXY WAR BETEEN CHINA AND THE F.S.U.

I admit that I often have a weird, quirky view of events, but  I see in China's approach to the trade war a long view of the current world political situation and they have opted for regime change in the U.S. as being to their long-range interests.  For the Chinese, their existential threats are climate change and the former Soviet Union.  They are well-aware that Putin has subverted not only the U, S. Government but thereby the whole world order.  They are more concerned with the massing of former Soviet troops along the Amur border and a unified global effort against climate change than going along with weakness in Washington. I have the quirky view that the developing trade war is a proxy war between China and the former Soviet Union.