Just the largest: Japan functionally recognizing Taiwan, AUKUS, the EU white paper on China, etc
Puahahaha Japan's the largest what? Japan's the most famous midget in China. Wanna see a big ally? Russia. Why all the weasel words like "functionally"? Does it actually recognize Taiwan? Does the US? Does anybody with anything to lose? No. We already went through AUKUS, all that flashy crap. The US loves fancy names and show even though they have no substance. China just does 5 year plans that work.
And the EU is doing export controls and foreign investment reviews
The government is forcing its companies and the companies that know their fields better than anyone warn their government that if you cut us off from the Chinese market, they will make it themselves. Same mistake, but because the West has no better moves, it must make it again until even that one runs out.
, Japan is hosing US marines
That's called being militarily occupied. That's Japan's status since 1945.
re: Taiwan (setting up a tripwire and guaranteeing American intervention),
And Chinese nukes guarantee that it will not happen, or that the US will lose and go home. America is sailing circles all around the SCS but it doesn't do anything substantial and certainly doesn't stop China from doing what we're there to do. Same with Taiwan, but they know even better to thread lightly there.
Australia flipping from FTA time to war time,
Australia's in war time? Explain that LOL
China growing faster makes everything else etc etc... not worth mention.
The US is simply taking steps,
because it knows it has no power itself to deter China, it takes steps to at least pretend it's doing something.
from the world's most professional bureaucracy,
Maybe the most professional one that recently suffered a mob insurrection in the its capital building.
to ensure a favorable political environment.
Which is the least it can do when everything inside is rotten and unable to compete.
Just like how the US told Europe in the 1980s to not do a Russian gas pipeline didn't mean the US-USSR power shifts were favorable to the USSR lol
1980's the US was scared shitless the USSR would nuke it to a crisp, which is the vulnerability that led it to do what you said. However, the US managed to win economically against the Soviets and their small population. With China, the US is losing ground economically, technologically, and China's build-up of nukes means that it will find nothing militarily to exploit either. Unlike the Soviets which focused only on its military, China is prepared to hand the US total defeat in all aspects and the US just keeps throwing its helpless henchmen in front of itself like the final moments of every coward criminal boss we see in movies.