>>2694779
Close, but there's more to it than that. Emperor Xi is using communism as an authoritarian mechanism to assert Chinese foreign policy and hegemony via OBOR. He's staked his entire political future on that success. That includes, eventually, a challenge of US dominance in the S. China Sea, Taiwan, Korea, etc.
All of this is predicated on the idea that the US will not meet their challenge. Under Hussein/HRC, that was the case. Trump? Not so much. But Xi has committed too much to back down now.
Our best bet? Crash the Chinese economy, make them shed their foreign currency reserves (mostly US treasuries) and force them into a premature conflict which they cannot win. Support Taiwan (think Czechoslavakia in WWII - see: Taiwan Relations Act, which makes the Taiwan issue a Congressional matter, not an Executive matter) when the time comes, and force punishing concessions.
I predict war with China within 3 years, one way or another.