Agreed with your post and logic wholeheartedly. If China were to overtly show that they were in a buying or building spree mode of the equipment and military vessels that can be interpreted and seen as a signal for a potential Taiwan operation the western world lead by America would have sprung up to action in no time and would have probably damage China's overall strategic plan with respect to it's economy, almost complete total independence from western supply chain or techn i.e. semiconductors
China's action and reaction do not happen in isolation or a vacuum or be ignored for that matter. Due to the impact and size of it's enormous economy the moment it sneezes the whole world reacts and gets affected whether they like it or not. So the notion or idea that any extreme military build up will make isn't going to make any of the western world's hair stand up is ignoring the current geopolitical narrative leveled against China despite what it says publicly and or what it states in terms of it's military posture and strategy which is for "DEFENSE OF THE MAINLAND AND ALL OF HER TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND NOT ONE INCH WILL BE SURRENDERED TO ANY ADVERSARY."
The west because of their deliberate ignorance, arrogance or both has continously ignore this stated fact. And because of this deliberate not to mention dangerous omission of Chinese stated objective, much of the public in the west are largely unaware of this very important fact. Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan are not something the 1.4 Billion Chinese are prepared to negotiate for something or anything especially for some dubious "Democracy" and "Freedom" b.s. The psyche of 100 years humiliation is entrenched in almost every single patriotic Chinese everywhere let alone in China.
The U.S. and the b..ch a..s Europeans can declare all their virtue signaling weak s...t all they like but at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, China will follow through on it's warning (military action) when the threshold is breached. It seems the west has a problem with their hearing, reading, and understanding comprehension. They still haven't learned from the Korean War when they were also amply warned not to cross the Yalu River or else. If the west want to repeat that episode then it'll be a different outcome this time around. The China of today isn't the China of 1950, broke as f..k and lagging in every measurable economic category. While the outcome in any conflict is never guaranteed, fighting against an opponent who has both the will and the spirit not to mention the righteousness in this possible conflict the advantage will be on China. The question is would there still be a world to live in.
Although I agree with your position, in my analysis, it’ll never get this far.
I anticipate that, if, and when, China deems it necessary to use (limited) military means to effect unification, the military options available to the US will have been severely diminished, pre-emptively, as a result China’s timely declaration of a “north-western-Pacific facilitating-nation decapitation” (for lack of a better term) policy.
Most of y’all know exactly what this means; but for those that don’t: any north-western-Pacific nation, i. e., Japan, S Korea, and Philippines, that allows any asset within their national territory, or under their national control, to be used, in any way, to facilitate any attack against China, or to facilitate the defense of any asset used in such attack, shall be considered as an existential threat to Chinese sovereignty and will suffer political and economic decapitation, i. e., decimation of Capitol and Capital (and, of course, to Capitalists, it’s the latter that’s most important).
Again, I return to my thesis that China’s pre-eminence in the north-western-Pacific derives from the forced nullification of the US-Lackey military alliances. Being that the US would survive all but the most drastic escalations, but the Lackeys wouldn’t survive a hyper-intense conventional/cyber campaign, the most expedient means to break these alliances would be to ensure the Lackeys of their destruction should they align in any military campaign against China’s core issues.
And, once the US can’t count on foreign cannon-fodder for it’s adventurism, we’ll see that its taste for adventure will diminish, greatly!