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What war are you talking about? Where? With who? You think the PRC can handle a naval war with the US, Japan, South Korea, real China, and Australia? For what? So you can expand your tax base by a few percentage points? Go for it.
The war that is already underway between China and the US for global hegemony via multiple proxies - see the middle east, Ukraine, Venezuela, Cambodia, Myanmar, Russia, Iran, Africa!
See also China leading on multiple strategic technologies and supply chain fronts.
You didn't notice? Oh dear.
USA is on the backfoot now with its military industrial combine crippled by its lack of secure rare earths supply chain.
China won the trade war and now seeks global hegemony and supremacy over the decaying US imperialists- and it looks like they might gain it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
Trump is now copying China because China has beaten USA at capitalism.
USA cannot fight a war of any scale now because China controls the supply of refined rare earths.
Chinas mixed economy - state capitalism hybrid vigour model of economic and strategic development has won the trade war and contest for global power projection hegemony.
Just take your time to let it sink in...you'll get over it.
Power comes out of the barrel of a gun made with rare earths - and you don't have one.