I think we need more digging to see if it is official Xi act of war, or Chinese/cabal clown act of war.
I do think it's fair to say that WWIII started when Putin took Crimea and rolled tanks into Ukraine, while China built islands in the south China sea.
If China had used nukes instead of a biological, more people would know we are in the middle of WWIII.
POTUS is dead set on not escalating this into an ELE.