« Appear weak when you are strong. »
Don’t the USA currently look caricaturaly patheticaly weak at this time?
What if it’s because the good guys are the ones really in charge?
What if they actually restrict our moves whilst they vacuum clean the whole mess without witnesses?
I am confident it’s just a show.
You have something here ... perhaps follow this lead further?
Imagine it’s just a realistic movie that only a few selected people know about.
Xi doesn’t. He thinks he’s ready to invade Western countries en masse and gets ambushed and defeated at once.
Then as the va😵ine actually is some Kubernetes-5G herd of nanobots, quantum computing is used to shutdown all of these at once in everyone that got poisoned.
Problem solved.