Notice how North Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and the US are all engaging in a military buildup. The fact that Japan is now getting more aggressive about building its forces is notable, and the same goes for Taiwan. This will only spur China and North Korea to increase their buildup, "exponentially" as N. Korea put it. Throw into that mix a sinking world economy, and things start to look dicey.

Media experts talk about China, militarily, being fully-ready to invade Taiwan in 2027 - thus ruling out, at least hosing-down, talk of an imminent invasion. But those calculations don't take into account what the other side is doing. They're not (Aus excepted) sitting 'round twiddling their thumbs until 2027- Korea, Japan, Taiwan, US are ramping-up as well.

Strategically, i would be taking that into account if i'm CCP. It's a window thing.