What's a Sharp Conflict?

We worry that china is serious about bringing tiwan back into the fold, and given that peaceful options for doing so seem to have dwindled down to nothing. Even if you don't have that, i think you're going to have a period where competition becomes much more or zero sum than it has been. So many of the issues are framed in zero sum terms. You know, the south china sea can either be international waters, or it can be a chinese lake. A 5g itali communications, you know, you can either use haway, or you can use some american ablessed alternative. There's us so many issues that are really coming to a