We're living in US' brezhnev years. They don't have anything left to leverage except isolating themselves more and threatening armed conflict using the massive military they built up in the past.
There is undoubtedly danger, but war between 2 nuclear superpowers might not be a certainty either.
I think China's current strategy is to instigate proxy wars that will ensure that direct invasion of the East by the West will not happen.
Many among the most militarist and nationalist Western officials that seek direct war with China have lamented that whenever America has a chance to "pivot to Asia", something in the middle east and now in Europe always ends up distracting them.
There is never such a thing as a coincidence. China is behind an entire generation of western, eastern and third world elite due to them driving global demand and bailing out the world fiscally in 2008. The influence of MSS is often ignored or invisible, because the best of intelligence agencies do their work in secrecy.
Going forward, expect more "coincidences" that happen to hurt west friendly interests and force US to respond.
Just take the latest happening in India for example. US thought they had the upper hand in influencing India. Suddenly, a group of flaky western looking, internationalist investors, acquire data that will force India to choose between saving Modi's closest oligarch and going into recession, or accept severe humiliation and try to save the economy.
Western bankers, being driven by greed, cannot resist using such data to enrich themselves. Its childs play to manipulate such internationalist and parasitic bankers. And in such groups, there is always a sizeable minority if not majority that became bankers because of the China connection.
Indians see their economy being attacked by westerners. Western oligarchs are being played against Indian oligarchs, in a similar way to how west friendly Russian oligarchs were played by the Ukraine war. A wedge is being driven in, causing a widening opening through more opportunities may arise, perhaps culminating in a new front being opened against the west.
Expect more "coincidences".