This is what I suspect as well. Studying the History of the USSR it is unlikily the CCP will repeat the mistakes of letting old people stay in the office for too long without letting younger leaders have experience like what the USSR did.
This isn't WW2 where SAM doesn't exist. And Chinese SAM are advance enough to shot Stealth planes so it doesn't matter how many CV they have if their planes get destroyed in the sky and then ASM can track and sink them.
Unlike the Taliban, China can actually hit back with Nukes against the USA mainland.
Becuase the USSR and US military are just paper tigers who can't really deal in real total war like during WW2.
Not going to say if it could happen or not but it really depends on the Chinese Economy, CCP remembers how the USSR stagnant and than died so they are not going to allow that to happen.
With the US vaccine people can still spread the virus around like they are carriers. The benefit is that they have less time being carriers compared to unvaccinated people.
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He said immunity of all waned after three months and in some countries the inactivated vaccines were...