White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the United States does not seek conflict with China, after the United Nations chief raised concerns about a potential new cold war between the two major powers. Psaki was responding to Antonio Guterres, the U.N. Secretary-General, who recently implored the two countries to repair their “completely dysfunctional” relationship and avoid “at all costs” a cold war that he said could spill damage to other parts of the world. Guterres believes the two countries should be cooperating on climate and vaccination, and engage in “serious negotiation” on trade and technology, even if tensions persist over human rights and sovereignty in the South China Sea. “Unfortunately, today we only have confrontation,” he told The Associated Press on Sept. 18 ahead of an annual U.N. gathering of world leaders. He said such confrontation could divide the world, with the United States and China creating “two sets …