It is all by design to deliver the US, R.O.C. to the rightful owners, along with Taiwan Formosa.  It was China's Turn in 2016 and they're not even trying to hide it now, the people are starting to notice which puts a kink in things (which may result in more mass graves just the same anyway).

Need to make it appear like "we were overwhelmed surprised and not ready for a war, so we settled for peace, we only need to follow a few simple rules, you'll like it, really, you will, everything will go back to normal, we promise!".

Remember, In Ukraine and Syria the DoD was providing personnel and air support to the Taliban, while the CIA was providing ground support and airstrikes on behalf of Ukraine.  (maybe I had that backwards, but two branches of .mil and then the private channels visa Israel and other countries had 3 dozen "teams" all fighting each other and dumping out propaganda, the only outcome they sought/seek was/is weapons research and population reduction.

It's all a racket to keep the war $$$ rolling around.  Peace is now good and war "always" kicks a country out of a recession/depression, which they've certainly placed us now with all the intentional dismantling and bowing to every country on earth in an Apology Tour.  The people who run the world don't care who wins, it is all split among them via power trades.  Those are the Big Dogs, the ones who don't even count money anymore and power/rank is determined by % of globe as puppets, sort of like Risk.    The only people that care are the ones directly impacted have no say but pay the worse price- Military and middle class.  They must be kept happy otherwise Money isn't moved through the war, market, and legal industries to keep the illusion of things All OK.

We need Russia on our side, sorry Ukraine, material support via conduit countries, but no way to stave off China alone due to their domestic  US purchases/takeovers and nearly absolute control of BigTech^® Worldwide.