The same people that tell you China is incompetent are the same ones that still would tell you Ukraine is winning. They'll also tell you China is porked financially... and while the narrative lately is that wars only start when one side is wrong about who's going to win, there's another scenario, when a financial hail-mary is required. It would seem confrontation is inevitable, by their logic.

Even if we completely dismiss their traditional military, their 5GW asymmetric abilities have killed a million with fentanyl and extracted trillions from us economically... do we really want their sleeper cells activated and taking out our electrical substations next? Movies like "Leave the world behind" are comms letting you know what's on the table.

It's a globalist test fail whenever this is still brought into the equation, its about naval power projection (breaking the island chain etc...) into the pacific from the US side, and nothing more.

The hedge on supply chain risks started a long time ago, was literally just announced the latest nvidia chips are being made in AZ.

Remember the psyop with NFL teams were flying masks and shit in on their own planes during the fake pandemic? Exposure op. The supply chain risks either net out or have already been mitigated.

Our treaty with the Phillipines should have this kinetic already if that's what the US wanted, in terms of Thucydides Trap, so why does China keep poking the bear?

The only comm's we're getting that there might not be a confrontation is the alleged rapport between Trump and Xi and whatever they hatched up in the Forbidden City during his first term.

There's a lot of confounding things going on, the fog of war is real, but the "lol their submarine sunk" is the lowest IQ case against take I've seen outside of The Atlantic.