Cooperation or conflict?

2 The writer is a former ambassador to the US, UK & UN. HENRY Kissinger warns that the turbulent relationship between the US and China carries the seeds of war. President Joe Biden describes ties between the two as "extreme competition", not conflict. The latest US intelligence report casts China as America's top national security threat. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says there are three aspects of the relationship with China — adversarial, competitive and cooperative. Top Chinese officials caution Washington against engaging in a new cold war, and stress that both countries have more to gain by cooperation….