The Chinese are “playing” go, the Russians chess the “Anglosphere” is “doing” Clausewitz’s On War. Look at the last 320 years of history from the Sun King onwards the “British/US” nations mobilize their populations, industry and then armed forces to crush any nation who threatens their “free trade”. China is just another one of those nations. I know post Putin Russia will be flipped and then China will be surrounded. China will then like Japan in 1941, be faced with either changing or striking out.