Keep prodding China, and you may have your wet dream of a war.
Every time USA humiliates China, the population will get more angry, and in due time the population will demand Xi takes military action.
It is the same playbook that was used with Ukraine.
How pissed do you think the population would be if Xi takes military action and fuel plus food imports get cut back dramatically to whatever Russia can spare and move across the Transgendered Siberian Railway and the Oceans get denied, look at a map it would be easy peasy.
How pissed do you think the population would be seeing what little lift capacity get destroyed and lots of families lose their one and only child trying to cross the straits to Taiwan and end up failing.
China knows this, it ain't doing shit, they have enough economic problems to deal with as it is.
I know you absolutely hate the west and everything it stands for but there is absolutely no way China would dare try. Double plus so after Ukraine showed what corruption does to a military, the problem is much worse in China.
How Angry do you think the population would get when they run low on fuel, food, when jobs go tanking, and their military is shown for the paper tiger that it is. If the PRC have struggled with one thing, it's keeping up the bread and circuses and they have been doing short sighted things to keep things going and keep power.
Also your comment regarding Ukraine, yeah, how to tell people who are one of those people who have a kneejerk hatred of the west without saying it.
If anything if NATO were more aggressive the invasion would never have happened, they made it clear they would not go in and as someone pointed out, they and much in the west thought it would be over soon.