That’s typical American MO. It goes something like this:
1) US creates a problem, eg tensions with North Korea
2) US tries to extricate itself from problem without losing face, fails.
3) US tries to get China to fix the problem which in no way relates to China
4) when China wants no part of it, US threatens China to fix the problem the U.S. caused, thereby creating another copy of the problem leading us back to 1).
you must remember that western leaders never experienced the ramifications of their actions, they believe in concepts like whipping boys and scapegoats and you see their members getting promoted after creating a mess eg von der leyen.