45% of Americans think China is the US's greatest enemy

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neutralize the enemy's nuclear capability. There will be no hot war between nuclear-armed powers before that is achieved.

I think the plan is to use conventional weapons and win a decisive victory. No one wants to escalate to nuclear immediately. If one side wins a decisive victory in short time, the war would basically end. The other side wouldn't want to drag it along in fear of a nuclear war.

On the other hand, if it drags on, they'll start with tactical nuclear warheads with low yields to attack military targets. Hoping to keep the battle in the tactical nuke sphere.

IMO, the best chance for a US victory would be a surprise tactical nulcear strike on the Chinese military. Destory its airbases, ports, fleets and critical infrastructre. A sudden victory would allow the US to de-escalate from their. The Chinese would see that their cities aren't being razed to ashes in a strategic warhead exchange. They'd be willing to back down as a nuclear counterstrike at that point wouldn't even yield military victory. Instead it could lead to an exchange of strategic warheads that leads to the Terminator 2 style judgment day for both countries.