This is wishful thinking.
China is not like the soviet union. It is the nearest thing to a peer competitor that the US has ever faced. It has an economy that is catching up and will overtake the US - something that's never happened before.
I do think the US is doing its best to strangle China in the cot, but I don't think it'll succeed. Once China becomes the biggest economy it will have allies because of its trading relationships, and it'll be the better option i.e. it could conceivably go with China instead of the US. Once we reach that inflection point we'll see a bifurcated world. I think now is only the start. At the moment the US still holds many advantages over China. But once China makes a few key breakthroughs i.e. develops its own capital markets and financial system that's not reliant on the dollar, breaks the semiconductor bottleneck and a few other things, it will be able to act with much greater independence. We're already seeing that trend with China discouraging Chinese firms listing in the US, the introduction of their own digital currency and new financial messaging system, and their Manhattan project like funding of the semiconductor supply chain. It's all coming.