I disagree. Your proposal lies on the assumption of the US being this hyper aggressive, “zero-f**ks” given country. Here is the thing though: it isn’t. The US throughout its history is not a risk taker. The Vietnam War, the lack of severe economic punishments of the Chinese (aka the exclusion of the Chinese from SWIFT and a full ban of all Chinese goods) for not sanctioning Russia, the later stages in the Korean War, World War 2, and World War 1 have all shown that the US will never pay a high cost or take dangerous risks to achieve their political objectives.
The present China is different from the 1996 one. China has shown to be able to weather any economic hurdles and that the US is reliant on China for economic livelihood (supply chain issues, tourism, and the unwillingness of the US to sanction China). If China doesn’t do anything, the US would perceive this as a sign of weakness and push harder to delegitimize the CPC at the lowest cost. The reason why the US still sells weapons to Taiwan, sends politicians over to Taiwan, managed to get Lithuania on board to support Taiwan, get the EU to be more aggressive towards China, and etc is due to China not doing anything. If anything, the Chinese should be extremely aggressive towards the US economically and militarily in regards to Pelosi’s visit. They need to show to the world that China will talk the talk, walk the walk. This in reality would give China more time since it would temporarily stop the US from performing salami slicing actions towards China.
on Chinese social media (Lady cooking dinner) but its just not as raunchy as on western sites (Lady in small bikini bouncing around).
