There is no doubt that China in this generation is one of the strong countries, now if in a literal war I could really say that China's armed forces are stronger than the US,
so if there is a war between the US and CHINA, China is sure to win compared to the US's armed forces.
That's why Trump went through a different tactic and everyone knows that here in the forum, and this is the Trade of war through tariffs so here it seems that China is being defeated,
but China is still struggling so the tariffs on them are high like 104% while the rest of the countries are only at 10%, I think it was paused for 90 days.
If we evaluate it overall, the US is still the country with the strongest military in the world with balance and diversity. Even Russia can hardly compare with the United States militarily, let alone China. If there were an armed conflict, the US would have an absolute advantage, but that will never happen.
Militarily, Russia is the United States' most formidable rival, but they have never considered Russia as a rival on the national stage. Instead, they see China as their most formidable rival, and simply because China is developing evenly in terms of economy, military, technology...China has developed evenly in an amazing, way and that is what is threatening the superpower status of the United States.