If China is serious about invading Taiwan, and I think they are, they’d be fools not to take out as much of the Pacific fleet as possible, in concert with their attack. Towards that end, Pearl, Yokosuka, Guam, Bremerton, and San Diego would all be in the cross-hairs. It is only pragmatic that they would, and one can imagine the carefully calculated war plan that they would undertake to win. Inflict severe damage on the Pacific fleet, without using nukes, and it’s hard to imagine what we could do to evict them from Taiwan, short of all out nuclear retaliatory strike. I’m not certain that this country has the mettle to go to all out armageddon over Taiwan.
“If China is serious about invading Taiwan, and I think they are, they’d be fools not to take out as much of the Pacific fleet as possible, in concert with their attack. Towards that end, Pearl, Yokosuka, Guam, Bremerton, and San Diego would all be in the cross-hairs.”
That would just be to repeat the same blunder the Japanese made in 1941. Once the USA is attacked, even Biden would have to go to war. The right approach for the CCP would be to just invade Taiwan with overwhelming force and hope the USA doesn’t respond. They would be fools to do anything else.