let’s emulate israel and put assassination on the table for the likes of china and russia.... but of course we’re against that publicly.
The latter is what happens when you help help Hell Angels to defeat Devil disciples so much that they either become an advancing enemy with which you fight proxy wars for 70+ years, while the former (China) is a result of the latter, in which you help as a type of ally, so much that they become the world's factory upon which you are dependent even for military hardware.
And which prevented dealing with N. Korea as Israel did with Iran.
Short-term gains, ling term loss.