Nope, an air/sea blockade will do the trick in 6 months. Not one life lost.
Sigh
How would we do that?
Our Navy has issues figuring out what bathroom to use and staying out of the way of supertankers.
Not to mention recruiting goals are not being met, and those who are being recruited heavily are not the best material for fighting a war to say the least.
But China has a lock of armed transports, and is not a naval power.
I wish the deep state had allowed those chips plants to be built in US soil ten years ago, but that didn’t happen.