Xi Jinping’s country is losing the trade war in nearly every way imaginable.>>>>>>
And when that happens there is a danger of war in the Pacific, just as it was with Japan in 1941.
Therefore the Pacific Fleet has to be well supplied and completely trained for what can be coming. This is a hard task because Obama ruined the effectiveness of the Pacific Fleet’s leadership.
China doesn’t have the natural resource/energy problems that Japan had before WWII when they were getting pinched.
I’m not ruling out that China would employ more hardball in negotiations including bluffing are more aggressive military stance, but as long as significant escalations are avoided, they really don’t have major reasons to abandon peace-time trade for war when their future economic ceiling is very high, even if things are currently not on the upswing with the US