The day may yet come where either ABM technology supported with hypersonics will be able to confer a decent amount of protection against nukes or the mental taboo against nukes is overcome. The anglos have expressed no such qualms against using nukes on asians unlike the healthy amount of fear they had against Soviet nukes.
I will stress however that should the day come and the balloon goes up for this much desired grand ride of the Rohirrim against China, then we cannot expect the anglos to view this as a normal civilised war, not when they were so ready to unleash biological weapons in Korea against asians.
How would this “all of society” campaign come about? Like the sort of gray zone warfare that the anglos perfected against native Americans; a multi generational multi decade and even century spanning campaign of PLA expeditionary forces making landfall on the American continent, forcing the people to accept the new Chinese order. In fact there is precedent, the multi decade long campaign against the xiongnu and the Anglo invasion of aboriginal australia. Make no mistake, judging by the dialogues of western commentators be they jack London or your average 4chan aficionado, their desire for genocide against Chinese is even more stark, and it bleeds into their everyday interactions with Chinese and other Asian peoples. Look how Americans turn a blind eye to the violence against Asian elders and how they only accept homosexual or fat and non threatening Asian men In the workplace. The core aim of this campaign is not simply to take the North American and Australian continents but to deprive the five eyes of the resources of those continents. Razing and destroying crop lands of the Midwest wheat belt and the arable lands of Australia or the mass firebombing of bushland is no different to the Anglo extermination of the native Americans by proxy by wiping out the buffalo.
Looking at the Anglo mind, why were they so psycho when supposedly China hacked the database of personnel of US government workers? Because the Anglo Americans got it into their heads that China would program a global suicide drone for each and every member of that database using facial recognition and biometric data, That’s the sort of perverse freudian slip that the anglos give away as to their true intent. When the entire society is this diseased, the prospects for peace are exceedingly dim.
I mean this is kind of what Mao seemingly believed in, stacking nuclear defenses, waiting for the decisive trade, and hundreds of millions in China would emerge as the survivors and create global socialism. It was certainly not an unwise line of thinking, especially since he lived in the hopeless time when China didn't not only not have economic dominance, but it was not even in sight. Military was the only thing we could match the Americans in.
If NATO chooses hostility, a morgenthau plan or some of the USSR proposed variations thereof is probably necessary to secure lasting peace.
But I think you misread how far China needs to go to permanently solve the issue of American aggression. Salting the Midwest fields? Burning Australia?
Midwest fields isn't what allows US to be a threat. What makes US able to be a threat to China? Is it:
A) the high quality of their individual person (no).
B) their agriculture industry (no).
C) the high efficiency of their industry (no lmao).
D) they have usurped international systems to serve their interests through corruption and pan-white supremacy ideology (yes).
So to remove what makes them dangerous, you don't even have to take away their agriculture, their population, or the hand making workshops they call industry.
Having wheat doesn't make a country powerful in 2024. Americans can have as much wheat they want, but as an example, if they can't buy semiconductors from China and Korea is cowed into submission from selling to them, there's no way Americans can make better products themselves, so they'll just wither into irrelevance. Like Brazil or Argentina.
To achieve this disarmament, it's not needed to vastly out tech the enemy, stack ABM and then lead a continent spanning war. The "only" needed requirement is to delegitimize and kick out America from as many international systems as possible and put spoilers into the US-pan whitey empire aspiration by screwing with their demographics and at the same time promoting European nationalism and/or alternative competing white "supremacy" ideologies.
Americans want to gather up the whiteys like they're interchangeable ant colony soldiers, born to serve USA simply because they're white. It can be spoiled by for example asking Polish nationalist why they're supporting Ukrainian nazi that massacred Polish collaborators in ww2. Or using Russian white supremacist to highlight how American white supremacist is lgbtqia friendly or any of the other trigger terms that nazis don't like. Or American support for Israel means that backing America means putting the white race under the thumb of Zionists. Regardless of how true or false these accusations are, similar arguments can be used to spoil the low iq white supremacist crowd.
If America can't have industrial goods from Asia, they won't be able to make better themselves, and if the Europeans can't come to their rescue, they are just done. No way out.
Doing those moves should be the starting point, and if that doesn't work, China can still keep advancing in military tech and maybe do what Mao envisioned later (and in that case I feel grateful that I have Chinese citizenship).