Also, China should focus on taking back Siberia from a weakened Russia. There’s no political downside with the West over that.
Is Siberia valuable for the natural resources?
and won’t affect chip production and supply chains...
China will turn on the Russians if it can defeat the USN and get us out of the western Pacific.
Instead of fighting Cold WarII with the Russians we should be playing them off against the CCP the way we played the CCP off against the Soviets.
To hold Taiwan we must keep that war confined to an air/sea battle with very limited boots on the ground. It will require us hitting mainland China and therein lies the rub, will they hit the mainland USA? I say yes and they are crazy enough to go nuclear.