>>508560356This. Time is also MASSIVELY in favor of China, as their economy is booming, they are building up infrastructure all over Eurasia with their Belt and Road initiative, so their geostrategic position just gets better by the day. Meanwhile, the US is debt spiraling and their society is decaying and they may even be stuck in yet another 20 year long desert war for isreel.
China is so obviously not going to start shit for Taiwan, they are playing for the world, not for a small island which will fall in their lap anyway. They are just doing this to force US resources to be spent on Taiwan, to help overstretching them. The US cannot wage several proxy wars at the same time, look how they even had to pull out of ukraine now.