None of which changes the fact that there is a war. Not only are the two nations still involved on opposite sides of the Korean War, which has never concluded, but China routinely scrambled fighters and bombers to harass U.S. ships in international waters.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-militarys-close-calls-chi...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/12/china-military-drov...

https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-planes-conducted-sim...

https://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-War-Victory-Disorder/dp/006...

There are armed confrontations between the militaries of these two countries on a constant basis. There just hasn't been any shooting yet.