Op Ed Without the mutual respect that is earned through the consistency of reliability, we no longer are able to mutually value each other as rivals. I find the trade war between US and China to be interesting that with so much commerce isn’t there a better way to solve conflict we are much past the urge for dominance two huge super powers should seek stability and globalization of world trade. This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.