For instance, the US grey CS and AI with brute force. Intel's designs are like that. The Chinese's motto it's kinda like Unix, less is more. But also doing far more per cicle, as MIPS CPU's. Just have a look at what Deepseek can do with a far less powerful machine.
Yes, there's a gap between Intel CPU's and the Chinese ones, but it's shortening over time. Also, if you can achieve less per cycle by optimizing (and with less power) in the end you can just cluster several CPU's with a similar power usage and win by doing parallel processing.
infact US combat operations are very well known for minimizing troops casulaties, and when it happens an entire movie gets made about it (black hawk down)
china has absolutely zero track record in might-makes-right style of politics.
and not to mention how many chinese students are currently betting their future on living in the US, and how many billions of dollars of chinese assets are invested in the US. if anything, chinese expats in the US would actively lobby the CCP to avoid a military confrontation with the US, whatever it takes.
Taiwan doesn't think so