What does victory mean in the era of mutually assured destruction? I don't see how a shooting war between the US and China could not end in both sides getting nuked.
There is only one country in the world which is reliably able to afford being nuked, and has "surviving first, and second strike" as part of its many doctrines.
The only major country against which MAD is not so assured is China.
USA talks TikTak, but the world hears "the overall political arrangement of China"
"Kill 300 million Chinese, still got a billion Chinese left. Kill 300 million Americans, no more America."