By listening to the CCP advisor and professor, they no longer fear the US military nor view this nation as an obstacle to their plans to invade Taiwan.
No doubt in my mind that Milley contributed.
when a chines military advisor goes in public and says things like 'our missiles are first in the world' and 'we will destroy all of Americas military assets in East Asia within a few hours' I have to suspect that maybe a bit of that is typical commie bluster about how invincible they are. I mean, North Korea also says stuff like that.
A war with China would be a tough fight that our woke generals could well lose, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that China rolls over is in a couple of days and it's over.