The proxy war between USA and China continues to escalate. Neither side wants direct conflict but China is increasingly using its proxies to test US resolve and capability. Iran, Russia and N.Korea are already captive tribute states to China and all three are involved in the attack on US hegemony. The recent BRICS meeting where Chinese puppet/proxy Putin proposed a BRICS payment alternative to SWIFT because China cannot be seen to be the real originator even though it is China that is maintaining Russian and Iranian trade payments via Yuan and indirect access to USDs through Hong Kong based banks. China has won the trade war- now all nations are reliant upon Chinese manufactured goods and commodity imports. This implies China could and eventually will gain dominance in trade payments and monetary hegemony- displacing the USD and one of the USAs last major strategic advantages. The process of USD hegemony displacement is something likely to happen slowly, then quickly. USA cannot declare war directly and China will not either as both would suffer serious consequences as the interdependence of their economies is considerable..so they are fighting this war indirectly via proxies.