The simple answer is in one word:
Patience.
If you want to know what China will do, study Sun Tzu.
They won’t attack Taiwan. They will *use* potential conflict over Taiwan to constantly test our military and political capabilities and potential reactions, but it would be stupid (by their paradigm) to attack; even if they win, they ‘win’ a wasted burnt-up wreck.
Far better to follow old Sun Tzu: take another 25-50, even 100 years, carefully subvert and take over peacefully, and let the fully ripe fruit fall into their hands, infrastructure intact.
China has one massive, and unchangeable advantage over us: they can make plans with a time frame of decades. Sure they might have to make some minor modifications, but to the Chinese 50 years is nothing, to America, only military programs (and then only rarely) can be planned out more than two electoral cycles in advance.
The impatience of President Xi has taken China off their long-term plans. They grew too fast and now they face a debt bubble that is even larger than ours and (for the time being) we have the luxury of printing more money as the world reserve currency. They don’t.
“China has one massive, and unchangeable advantage over us: they can make plans with a time frame of decades.”
They have another huge advantage—the government favors the Chinese people over other races—and believes in its destiny.
The US government hates white people and wants them poor and powerless.