He warns against the emergence of a "structurally adversarial relationship" between China and the United States and its regional friends.
The adversarial guys had a hell of time.
The structure, frequently likened to a spider's web, was much admired in the 1990s as a way to defuse the traditionally adversarial relationship between buyer and supplier.
We are seeing fundamental shifts from contractual, adversarial relationships with the business to ones that are more collaborative.
There is much public discussion of an evolving adversarial U.S.-China relationship.
An adversarial or uncooperative attitude can easily scuttle any positive results and plunge the discussion into pointless hostility.
That doesn't sound adversarial to me.
This is the adversarial problem.