Since this war started I’ve seen a lot of pieces from think tankers in DC who try to explain why this has something to do with China, and frankly I usually just skip past them. They’re mostly garbage, and it’s become very clear that the war has more to do with a broken decision making process in an administration full of enabling careerist cowards and a president very much out of his depth. And a lot of these pieces are written by people hoping to hitch their wagons. So rather than reading hacks that haven’t actually studied anything about China, here is some commentary from China that should give you a sense of what Chinese analysts think about the war.