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US will throw Japan under the bus.
US is too broke to fight another war.
NO, the Chinese is not going to lend money to the US to fight against them.
Unthought provocation ? This is the golden moment for the Chinese to take the US down a notch and been in the pipeline since they began modernising their armed forces. Their missile forces are enough to deter US from thinking this is going to be another turkey shoot.