You mentioned that the article could be spinned. Of course it is.

CCP is not ready for war. That is why they actively promote surrender before the fight has even begun.

This could be indicative of a couple of things:

1. It is a deadly show, some people indeed will die, but that is just part of this sick game.
2. CCP knows it has no capacity to do what they want, because:
   a. Internally CCP land is a mess on the brink of collapse, which would lead to domestic unrest, and would impede the chuch of the almighty STATE power.
   b. By committing to a course of fighting a war, CCP would soon see they are very very vulnerable.
   c. What of the alleged hypersonic missile test? those who reported originally on it are Demetri Sevastopulo and Kathrin Hille (Taipei). https://www.demetrisevastopulo.com/Bio https://www.ft.com/demetri-sevastopulo So, is benefiting from such stories?
   d. Who are in the hypersonic missile club? https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/indias-hypersonic-missiles-are-bad-news-china-183330

So, yes .... CCP is surrounded by the hypermissile club. Whether the test was genuine or not, CCP knows it is boxed in.

e. https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/df-fobs.htm

"We know from a recent Washington Post report that Phytium uses US-derived technology to power a military supercomputer that models hypersonic flight. While the Biden administration rightly placed Phytium on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, it has not applied the Foreign Direct Product Rule that was successfully used to counter Huawei. As a result, US-derived technology produced by TSMC still enables Phytium’s malign work."

Again: who is the beneficiary of this news?

Contrast this with https://web.archive.org/web/20211022175154/https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/china/china-hypersonic-missile-spacecraft-intl/index.html