China definitely understands what is at stake. They learned that through The Opium Wars and the following 100 years of humiliation. Are they capable of confronting the Jewish/US hegemony successfully? Probably. China, The Yellow Peril has always worried western Imperialists- because it is so big, culturally deep and alien. No western imperialist could ever completely subjugate China- they all took (death by a thousand) pieces of it from their multiple concessions around the edges, but China itself was simply too big and deep to completely enslave/kill. Japan made the best and most brutal effort but still the Nationalists hid out in Chongqing (supported by the British via Myanmar) and the CCP built up its own resistance in the North. So after the H bombs were dropped and the CCP took power the Nationalists fled to Taiwan with the gold- not the outcome the US/Britain expected.

China has made no secret of its objection to the USD hegemony over trade payments via SWIFT, backed by US military. China has been building its alternative trade payments protocols and channels. Since the return of Hong Kong this has become much more viable. China is reverse engineering the monetary hegemony that was imposed upon it via British Navy and banks, via Hong Kong. Chinas CBDC is already operational as are mBridge and CIPS. Trial CBDC trade payments protocols have been developed in partnership with China/Hong Kong, Thailand and UAE. mBridge is the wider application of this alternative to SWIFT. The Saudis have now joined mBridge and BRICS. China already provides Iran and Russia with trade payments routing outside of SWIFT/USD and the US dares not sanction this. It is only due to Chinas ability to provide independent trade payments to Russia and Iran that they can and have challenged US military positions in Ukraine and Middle East.

China, like the Jewish bankers have done for centuries is using military proxies. China can do this because unlike Israel it dominates global supply chains. It can buy Iranian and Russian oil and gas and provide them with a near full array of manufactured goods required to support their economies and war machines. All nations now need to trade with China or suffer lower commodity exports prices and higher imported manufactured goods costs...and potentially lose supply of strategically vital supply chains, like rare earths. The US military industrial banking combine cannot fight a war of any duration without rare earths.

Trump can apply strategies like using stablecoins to prop up the dollar, but the technological, productivity and trade advantage is still heavily in favour of China. The nature of war is changing as you pointed out with technology like drones capable of destroying billion dollar aircraft carriers and destroyers...and China is strongly in the lead in terms of building both shipping and drones. Both, especially drones, require rare earths to produce. Chinas deliberately structured industrial economy can produce both drones and shipping significantly quicker and cheaper than any western nation.

The US empire is not sustainable beyond a few more years- Trump desperate tariffs strategy admits that. It is an attempt to remain solvent a little longer while negotiating the carve up of territory with Trump making clear he would like USA to retain its hegemony over the Americas, perhaps extending to Greenland, but that all other regions may be negotiable. Reshoring microchip manufacturing certainly signals Taiwan is negotiable if not inevitable. China has already won the trade war yet most American voters still do not recognise China as a credible adversary. Their blindness/arrogance is typical of an empire in decline.

The Jewish bankers and their puppet US muscle must be considering all the options, but China appears to have the upper hand at the moment. Xi has granted Trump 6-12 months of rare earths supply but excluding any destined for military purposes.