Isn't it in the US's interest to some degree to have a stable China rather than desperate and poor? Currently the course seems to be escalation on the economic side, with ever stricter sanctions and so on.
Not to say that China doesn't have agency to correct its own mistakes or that their internal problems are on the US. Certainly a lot of their problems are on them and self-inflicted, from what I've read. But I still feel an escalatory mood from us in the west as well, which makes me uneasy.
(I'm also of course aware that Chinese hardliners are very dangerous and seem to want to escalate and may want to deflect from their mistakes with Taiwan and so on. Not minimizing this, but this is nothing we can control.)
Not to say that China doesn't have agency to correct its own mistakes or that their internal problems are on the US. Certainly a lot of their problems are on them and self-inflicted, from what I've read. But I still feel an escalatory mood from us in the west as well, which makes me uneasy.
(I'm also of course aware that Chinese hardliners are very dangerous and seem to want to escalate and may want to deflect from their mistakes with Taiwan and so on. Not minimizing this, but this is nothing we can control.)