If we are talking conventional....it would hardly be an island hopping campaign against China .....
China is a mainland nation ...self-sustaining ...
Japan was an island nation not self-sustaining you could isolate...
. don’t find an island nation and a mainland nation the same way....
fight China will be far more like the invasion of Europe with Japan playing Britain....
except you probably have to fight just to get to Japan to get a staging point....
Then China would have the ability to absorbed a massive land invasion just like Russia’s land mass absorbed Germans
it would be a true intercontinental battle
And if we ar talking nuclear then its old fashioned MAD.. scenario like we had with the Russians during the Cold War
Actually, China is very dependent on foreign oil imports to keep things running in the military and civilian worlds. Interdiction of their oil supply outside of their territorial waters could be very effective.
http://warisboring.com/articles/to-defeat-china-in-battle-america-should-study-world-war-ii/