There are only 8,786 VLS in the U.S., not 10,000. at the rate China is building ships, China will have more VLS than the U.S. by 2031.
We had played the Americans in 1950/1951 and we knew the level of the Americans very well.
And after the Korean War, the US would only go to war with countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, Haiti, and so on. Not a single country that ranks in the top 10 globally in terms of national power.
And China has been at war with the US(1950/1951), USSR(1969), France(1949/1954), UK(1949), India(1962). We won the wars with all of them.