I believe we can fight the Chinese in the same wy while developing our own resources to the point that we are the major supplier. Then our people can have cheap gas while we use the position in the market for export to make it hard on nations like the Chinese when they step over the line as they are doing.
IOW, we do not have to make the American public suffr in the process if we are the ones with our hand on the spicket. too.
We could always invade Iran and cut off China’s major oil supplier and place an all around oil embargo on them, plus embargo jet fuel and scrap metal similar to what we did to Japan before WW2.