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I'd move on.
If a much more powerful country says that they will take you over by force if you don't surrender, that's a pretty concerning position to be in.
I think up until now, for the last 30 years (?) they were on the upswing and they looked better and better. Now they are strong, but having serious economic challenges, more than past few years. The unneeded infrastructure will start to matter more. I really hope they can keep it together and not start a war. But it's such an incredible temptation for countries in this position. They are close to their maximum power, in 10 years I expect the worker shortage to really start to hurt.
If anything causes a war with Taiwan, it's all this talk about how they are going to start a war with Taiwan and subsequently sending military support to Taiwan "to defend them". China can accept (and has accepted, for decades) the status quo but not deviations from it. Taiwanese polls say that stunts like Pelosi's visit made the situation more dangerous. This is literally a self-fulfilling prophecy here. Wise leaders from the past came up with the One China Principle as a way to keep the peace, which it has for decades, but the US is rapidly breaking that construct while gaslighting the other party.
I'm not sympathetic to this view that by saying the west cares about Taiwan's independence, we are going to cause China to attack Taiwan, since we talk about how China & Taiwan should be free and we'll push too much on the feelings of China or something. That's ridiculous. China keeps threatening to attack Taiwan, I'm not responsible for their actions. I can only help Taiwan, as an american and a believer in the freedom of democracies. China will attack Taiwan or subvert their democracy slowly or just accept them, but I will support the us defending Taiwan's democracy. I know many people from Taiwan, and from China too through work. They are all just people. They should be free to self determine their future and live in peace, all of them.
It's similar to Russia telling former ussr countries they can't make treaties with NATO or they will attack them, then they go and attack the ones that don't make friends with nato. I just can't accept that type of hysterical behavior. I respect the achievements of china, but they don't have the right to invade people because their feelings are threatened or something. The same is true of the us. The us is not a perfect country of course. But I'm generally in favor of democracies being able to survive.
China is not a democracy and is against the democracy of Taiwan surviving. Yeah, I knows there is a complex history about taiwan the island, and the kmt treated the natives in taiwan terribly, and there was the war for China in the 1950s that the kmt lost and chinese communists won and taiwan wasn't a democracy at the start, until recently. Still I want the democracy of taiwan to persist. I don't care about the historical arguments about one china. Let that democratic country survive. I hope one day mainland China becomes free and the people have self-determination. I've known people who escaped the soviet union and married people in my family even back into the 1980s. It can happen again hopefully the people of China can become free and self-determine their own choices about their lives.
Western media has also predicted that China would be crushing everything in the west for the last 10-20 years, from manufacturing to software engineering to military technology. I work as a software engineer, I've worked with people educated in china for 30 years now. They are smart, as brilliant and capable as anyone I meet. I don't underestimate their capabilities.
Chinese firms have been raising money in overseas markets and has been exporting risk in this way, the issue is how China's government will handle this against the opaque corporate structure behind these financial instruments sold overseas.
As they should. US-based entities speculating in China thinking the CCP had their back falls squarely into play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
(Look at the mountains of money piled into straight-up obvious crypto scams, at least China is full of real companies that are doing real business[1], even if sometimes that business goes to shit.)
[1] Like making all the things the world uses. And serving half a billion people living middle-class lifestyles.
China has experienced the catch-up growth that it missed out on after 1949 in the past 3 decades or so. The trajectory of growth is less than for example, South Korea or Japan. The big difference being that China has more people.