Who knows, having access to resources is always a good thing, I mean if the USA cannot trade anything with China due to the whole nation going down the toilet due to lack of resources and goods to sell, it’s always good to have another door open in case and who knows, this could play into Chinas advantage regardless. Slowly but surely, given that Australia accept Chinese currency for Iron now, Australia will ultimately assist China in destroying the dollar (unwittingly) which in end will greatly assist china in its inevitable rise. China may not be waging a physical fight with the USA (but are ready to fight any how) but by providing assistance to Europe (all those heaters and electric blankets) and ensuring good relations with South America and Africa (the results showing the Africans rejecting the US attempt to pull Africa into their side, just recently anyhow) and also showing measured restraint in regards to Taiwan (thus no Asian nation apart from a few undesirables) has basically got Tsai into hot water due to her trying to be Zelensky and failing big at that.
Hence I take the sign that the USA has a collapsing retail market (Walmart and Walgreens closing stores in massive numbers) and other market (Amazon firing 20k employees as an example) and with the drought ripping their agricultural industry a new asshole to be a good thing over all, hence while China may have to trade goods with Australia to compensate for some of the good the USA may not be able to provide, it is much easier to endure then having to send goods to the USA for toilet paper that can buy sh!t.
China doesn’t need to unleash the stick preemptively and simply use this as a long term plan to ensure that China has there doors open to opportunities in the future when the time presents itself. Besides, not having to spend a vast amount of resources to keep the US industry going whilst using much less resources to keep a stable trade going for the time being shouldn’t be a bad trade off. That being said, China shouldn’t accept stupid lectures from anyone but if no one brings it up, no one needs to reference it at all since the longer China keeps to status quo and let’s the USA continue the silliness in Ukraine for as long as possible and also letting the US economy go to pieces along with other nations progressively become more anti American, the easier that China can rise to the top and the simpler the transition will be when those other useful nations can fold into Chinas orbit and the rest of those other belligerent trash (UK and Canada being the absolute worse with regards to the whole mess in Europe) can start begging for mercy when they have no where to run and no one wanting to help them
