China is likely next, depending if the group vying for WWIII takes control. They'll probably cross red lines on Taiwan hoping for China to respond.

I doubt it, not now that China has a larger economy than the US. The time to instigate a war with China was 20 years ago, not now that the US economy is tanking, while China's economy is growing.

The neo-cons will bluster and threaten, might even apply some low-grade economic warfare like sanctions, but that's all they'll do against China. They coupled themselves too closely to China. They can't directly bully China anymore.

I live in PA and so I follow politics and news in the state pretty closely. PA's Montgomery county, just outside of Philadelphia, was one of the first huge hotspots of Covid in early 2020, because it's a big center for corporate pharmaceutical companies whose executives and businessmen travel to China a lot, specifically Wuhan.

They can't attack China directly, either militarily or economically in any meaningful way. They have too much cash invested over there. That's also why both India and China feel emboldened to ditch the petro-dollar and tacitly support Russia. They see the sun setting on the US empire, and they want off that sinking ship to carve out their own economic spheres of influence.