“Who knows what game Xi is playing”
Part of that game is giving American consumers a taste of what shortages would be like so when the Chicoms invade Taiwan, a majority of the American public screams not to help Taiwan else China cuts off the flow of goods. Some of these port shutdowns or regional shutdowns DO NOT PASS THE SMELL TEST! The Chickms would sacrifice millions of their own people if it was in the best strategic interests of the party, so these reasons given are bs.
I doubt they will invade Taiwan. They’ve have 80 years to make a move and they know that Taiwan can hurt them. They can hit 3 Gorge, Wuhan and Singapore. They also decide to destroy their chip manufacturing, China has nothing. They also know our fleet is there. Trust me they are a Scut Farcus looking for a serious bloody nose!