The US is literally prepping the First Island Chain with swords that would be aimed directly at the beating heart of China.
Unfortunately with how things are developing in the Western Pacific, in order for China to secure the survival of her people and her civilization state, I could only see 3 ways (or any of the combinations) on how this would end, frankly speaking:
1. Economical, influential and geopolitical integration, subjugation, or both, of countries along and around her in order to flush the US out of the Western Pacific;
2. All-out total war with the US over Taiwan in order to dismantle and disintegrate the US military and geopolitical instruments in the Western Pacific by force;
3. Collapse of the US hegemonic empire from within thanks to various internal and external factors that would force the US to withdraw from the Western Pacific and isolate themselves.