Well if you do all you can to stirr some 'great war', you will eventually get it. Its only US saying there will be one though, rest of the world is in WTF mode. China doesn't care about anything global but Taiwan and its own security. They are probably more capitalist than US at this point and prefer having stable trade cash flows rather than expanding.

So, if thats the real underlying reason for all these steps then US is the warmonger here attacking literally everybody preemptively. 5D chess at least.