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I can only speak for myself, but this is one of the questions, alongside with other great questions of mankind like What does it feel like to stick your penis into a toaster? where I am perfectly willing to keep my ignorance.
Even if China was merely an upscaled Iran who took a beating while lobbing missiles at regional US allies and disrupting the SE Asia trade, attacking them would dwarf any other Trump decision in stupidity by orders of magnitude. And in reality, they are certainly not just an upscaled Iran.
Of course, the other unknown is the US military, which has not been in a conflict against peer adversaries since WW2. A lot of the funding of military hardware seems to be as much about state politics as it is about enhancing capabilities, and if it turns out that their hardware is not so much better that it makes the Chinese hardware moot, the production capabilities of China might prevail in attritional warfare.
The US easily beating Iran on a tactical level (and only there!) does not prove anything, they are spending more on this war per week than Iran spends on defense per year. At this level of disparity, anything less lopsided would indicate total incompetence on the part of the stronger party. (Nor would these figures stay the same if the US foolishly tried to occupy Iran.)
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