Like I said, spend some time reading @Patchwork_Chimera posts here and on reddit.If the Chinese side has access to hypersonics, what makes the US unable to procure them? They've just recently completed 2 successful test so having b-2 launched hypersonics is not out of the question. If hypersonics are at play and they are extremely difficult to intercept, it's not a stretch that the US will priorities hitting critical chip making infrastructure over the long term seeing as those hi-tech factories are extremely fragile. Over the long term they don't need to beat China in the first Island chain, just make it so that China will seriously struggle to push past, which they will through targeting those critical supply chains. They could also technically target nuclear powerplants, but that's a road that leads to MAD, so it's kind pointless to speculate.
We've seen that volume of fire alone is not enough to win wars from the Korean war to Vietnam, so what makes you think that local fire superiority will allow China to completely suppress Korea/Japan war making capabilities? If invading Taiwan required an operation greater than D-day how will China ever manage to stop Japan from lobbing missiles back?
Here's a link to one: https://www.reddit.com/r/LessCredibleDefence/comments/vs924o/_/ifftoww
Here's another: https://www.reddit.com/r/LessCredibleDefence/comments/vrpur9/_/ieycnae
PLA strike strategies in westpac HIC
I would disagree with this. America is definitely not hesitating or folding. It just never made sense for America to adopt China's missile strategy. America is ahead of China in so many areas militarily. I don't see why it ever made sense for them to try to beat China in hypersonic missiles...
www.sinodefenceforum.com
Basically, your idea of the US just 'easily' being able to take out chinese IC manufacturing is not based in any kind of reality lol.