China will say “Hands off or else”. We must bow to China or perish.
Really? What effect do you think a state of war would have on all that U.S. debt the Chinese hold? What do you think the U.S. Treasury would do about it?
A major contest between China and the U.S. -- how do you think it would go? Do you think we would lose? (Yes, we'd lose a lot. Lots of dead, lots of destruction.) Or do you think it would result in China's being reduced to her former circumstances of, say, 900 years ago?