thermonuclear ICBMs begin raining down on them like snowflakes...ALL of their major cities and defense installations are destroyed.....game over.
Yeah, right. Show me the US President - of either party, living or dead - who would ever give that order.
Any war between the US and China will be fought exactly like the Cold War - using covert operatives and "military advisors" in places like Sudan and Venezuela and Myanmar.
Yep, you called it, 1.4 Billion Chinese dead, 200 Million Americans dead and all the rest suffering from slow radiation poisoning and hunger. To bad that the Chinese don’t see it that way.