RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Lets all remember to not get too lost in the weeds....China leadership simply love it when points of view like your own, Gorilladome47, are running rampant amongst the various appointed incoming U.S. Government administration representatives.
You have shown yourself as representing precisely some of the erred understanding which the very few who actually operate all aspects of "The U.S. Enterprise" simply know much better about.
China leadership simply long expects it when the American Na and zi idiologies and methodologies supported tactics are employed and quite strategically deployed against the very fabric of China; the fabric of China being it's self-knowing and more self-understanding peoples, with their most dogmatically maintained and duly sustained culture of Chinese and China first and "personal qualms" of every sort identifiable or convenience of though process absolutely last. We know that is certainly quite something that simply does not "rule the day" within the American Na and zi like mindset, whether that be Democratic or Republican American Na and zi like mindset.
You stated "It looks to me as though there's a war in progress involving economic survival rather than military might."
"My friend", your statement is clearly demonstrative of your relative lack of appropriate basic understanding with respect to "WAR".
I suggest you first seek to inform yourself about every single aspect to WAR. More intelligent people tend to do so before electing to convey for others that they would know anything about "WAR".
Understand that the powers that be always aggressively operating the U.S. Enterprise at any given nanosecond, this irrespective of the political party colors they necessarily wear one second and then switch to the next second and especially prior to the next designated U.S. President being "installed" (understand why I quite intentionally employ the words designated and installed Gorilladome47); know full well that which you are either unwilling to or unable to know with respect to what has been afoot since well before Donald J. Trump was having his helmet cleaned as a teenager, so to speak, this whilst his father and DJT's uncle were allowed to go about conducting business within the United States of America especially - although, not exclusively so.
You mentioned "highlighting the social unrest as being the most dangerous and one that isnt reported on nearly enough...".
You do so quite intentionally whilst not wanting to pay specific attention to the Chinese leadership already having a contigent course of action and already established series of deployable solutions to most efficiently and effectively nip at the bud that particular incessantly deployed U.S. Government and "friends" deployed "specialized mass propaganda" "weaponization of social media capability.
You asked "so what aspect of China as a country gives them the upper hand in anything? " and then stated "Yes they still are a manufacturing power house...but that's changing and is no longer the big stick it used to be prior to COVID. They do proudce chips; however, they are the lower tech chips...like your toothbrush signing a tune etc...low level irrelevant stuff."
Alas, I have to say that your specialized U.S. centric U.S. Na and zi like propaganda and incessantly anti China rhetoric in particular, does come across as demonstrating such pedestrian thought processes in said regard.
You stated "They are fighting for their survival as a country at their weakest point in decades...and that is precisely why Trump will bring the pain in a big way in two weeks. It's what you do when you're in a fight and your opponent is weak".
Alas, China always comes across as being weak to those who would seek it's current relatively reduced (remember that China'S GDP had previously been closer to 13%) level of Economic Security DESTRUCTION and therefore would be seeking to destroy China's National Security and along with it the very system of governance which provides a necessary service, for it's part, in maintaining global stability in many most important respects. Should Donald J. Trump genuinely be seeking a divorce, so to speak, from China, a permanent decoupling, he is well on his way to making that happen; and yet, he should be and his handlers should be well aware of "the pound of flesh" that China would expect to collect when the powers that be operating The U.S. Enterprise betray the deal they made to have China brought into the gobal economic fold well before China joined the WTO as a member nation state.
The powers that be operating The U.S. Enterprise - like they are clearly drunken by war's beneficial impacts - clearly have preferred to have China "existentially threatened", because such a tactic of WAR worked so well with The U.S. Enterprise led and Western Nato and EU member nation state accompanying "proxy war", Ukrainian proxy, against Russia?
Alas, hubris developed in part by incessantly reading and actually believing your own global propaganda industrial complex spun out and globally disseminated press is not advised. Perhaps somebody may want to have Donald J Trump and his "handlers" clearly understand this. Do you?
As was in fact the case with the outgoing U.S. President, Kompromat riddled Joe Biden and all the U.S. Presidents who preceded him, this incomming U.S. Enterpise Commander in Chief (Commander and thief) and would be Emperor is wearing the same new clothes as his predecessor, i.e. no clothes at all and yet everybody and their cousins are necessarily pretending he is fully clothed. W know he is not; and since we know, you can full well expect that the Chinese leadership and "friends" have always known such a fact.