Yeah, the money owed to the Federal Reserve because of all the money printing they did for the other irresponsible spending, that people kept saying needed to happen despite us being broke
Xi would wait normally but if the US is killing itself, short of Moses parting the Taiwan strait there would never be a better chance, so Xi would probably say fuck it, this will solve our excess population problem.
How could it work exactly? In the event it goes hot, pretty much every government the US has pissed off is gonna start settling scores.
Xi would move on Taiwan, Russia would have a free hand to use the forces they have held back, and being honest given how Europe drained their arsenals why not...