>>509559840 (OP)I don't think China realizes the US has already shifted its focus to the Indi-Pacific.
Orange man basically told Europe "you fucks are on your own."
They have missile batteries set up in the Philippines in range of mainland chinese military assets, a reformed Marine Corps built specifically for combat in a Taiwan contingency and 2/3s of its naval strength within a day's sail of the South China Sea. The US unironically has a larger posture in the asian pacific right now than it did opposite the Iron Curtain at the height of the cold war.
>b-b-but they're supplying Ukraine with stuffStuff that would be irrelevant to a Taiwan Contingency. US bases in the Philippines and Japan are already protected from missiles by Patriots with independent stockpiles. China still doesn't have an air force capable of seriously contesting the US in the skies even with a homefield advantage and stuff like artillery shells are wholly irrelevant to a conflict that would play out between naval ands air assets over control of strategic sea zones and the islands that dot them. The US quite deliberately provides nothing for Ukraine's air force, because those stockpiles are preserved for conflict with China.
China is deluding itself if it seriously thinks an oppourtunity will present itself before this Ukraine conflict settles into a frozen war. What this should have demonstrated to them unequivocally is that there will be no BRICS alliance, no axis of resistance. If they fight the world they'll fight it alone.