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richwicks says

A war with China would mean nuclear war.

Um, no. We don't have MAD with China: most of their missiles are intermediate-range. So they won't use the bomb first unless they are suicidal.

Whatever "war with China" means for the OP the most realistic scenario would be some kind of naval skirmish, most probably around Taiwan.

Rin says

Actually, the PRC have no allies at all, in the region.

Great analysis, the whole post great stuff.

Xi complimented Trump yesterday on his rejection of Globalist and open borders.

I think Xi loves the power, and he's using communism to dispose of people he sees as a threat to keeping power.
But mostly to try to get America to make a huge Trade deal to keep all of the global supply chain production.
Then return to the perverted Capitalist society but with the iron fist of a Communist regime to keep power.

He's now seeing American left embracing Socialism for real, and suddenly being the Cold War spook angle loses it's provenance.
He knows that kind of Communism the American commies are calling for, would break and starve a nation in short order. Only small countries can hold out indefinitely, large countries can not survive under a failed Socialist Economy,

Xi's a sick fuck don't get me wrong, but he doesn't want a Chairman Mao role, nor does he want China to be the isolated Dragon city in the East.
If Xi was all in on Communism all of those ghost towns would have millions of people living in them for free or get Housing vouchers for them based on their social score.
We'll never see that, they want people to buy them so China's Wealth can recover.