The US is very weak right now.
Flip the script, and maybe the US is the one trying desperately to start a war. All mainland China has to do is wait until the third week of November to strike, and it won’t matter.
“Flip the script, and maybe the US is the one trying desperately to start a war. All mainland China has to do is wait until the third week of November to strike, and it won’t matter.”
Think about it: If we wanted to start a war there is a hell of a lot of low-hanging fruit out there we could choose to engage. And China wouldn’t be one of them.