You should pay more attention.
Despite all the tough talking over Taiwan, China has eyes on the Russian Federation. Easier pickings.
Did you know China signed a Belt and Road deal with Ukraine, and followed it up with an equivalent to the Budapest Memorandum with Ukraine two weeks before Putin forced Yanukovych into committing a treasonable offence in December 2013?
China ain’t happy with Putin. He set the Belt and Road initiative back a decade in Europe by sabotaging the EU trade deal, triggering a civil war, and then invading Crimea.
If things go China’s way, the ‘Stans will flip and Muscovy will become almost as relevant on the world stage as Belarus and North Korea.
China has better things to do right now than attack the USA, so all the USA needs to do right now is stop poking the panda, pull up a deckchair, and watch Russia get broken up... by China.
The one thing guaranteed to make China move quicker on that is a nuclear incident on Ukrainian territory. Ukraine, Turkey, the Baltics, the ‘Stans, Poland and the USA all know the score... If a nuke incident happens and Russia is responsible then Muscovy is guaranteed to find itself in a Chinese led hurt locker.
“China has better things to do right now than attack the USA, so all the USA needs to do right now is stop poking the panda, pull up a deckchair, and watch Russia get broken up... by China.”
May it be so!