oop yea i didnt mean to say that war was coming by 2025-2028 but rather that there's definite and clear evidence that at some point china will eclipse the US as the world's hegemon, and the US won't let that happen. tbh itll be hard to say when a direct war with china will ever break out, but we know for a fact that it is already being fought in the periphery. the war between china and the us will be determined by the international situation as we can see with things like the indo pacific framework solidifying an economic-political-military alliance between the us, japan, india and australia aimed at surrounding china. the host of allegiances between the two poles will probably be the brunt of the violence until the situation severely deteriorates.

both sides it looks like are trying to play the long game, so idk if anybody could really make an accurate prediction, but you make a lot of good points