The Americans will do to China in whatever in their power whenever they think they can get away. That's why China should build at at least 1500 nukes in deployable state and demonstrate such capability to the world, not totally concealing them to effectively deter American adventurism on Chinese interests. In the meantime, I don't think China should get into unnecessary war with US like many people like China to fight US in the Iran war.
The United States hopes that China will reduce its nuclear weapons. We have proposed to the United States that the U.S. and Russia should reduce first, and then China will join the agreement at the appropriate time.
Currently, the situation is that the United States is losing military hegemony, financial hegemony, technological hegemony, and discourse power. The U.S.'s weapons manufacturing capacity has been restricted.
Therefore, we are not in a hurry to have a conflict with the United States. If the U.S. attacks first, we will retaliate immediately at the first moment of their attack.
In fact, the United States cannot collapse too quickly. Let us not forget that the U.S. has planted a landmine of nearly 40 trillion dollars of debt. If the U.S. collapses like the Soviet Union, the dollar will depreciate significantly, and this debt will bankrupt many countries.
Since the United States attempted to invade China in 2016, we have begun to accelerate the abandonment of dollar debt. Currently, China's holdings of U.S. debt amount to 694.4 billion dollars.

Correspondingly, the amount of U.S. debt held by American allies has increased significantly. ...

"The dollar is our currency, but your problem" was said by U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally in 1971, reflecting dollar hegemony and its impact on the global financial system.
The total U.S. national debt increased from about $329.3 billion in 1966 to about $37 trillion in 2025, rising further to $38.77 trillion in February 2026, and is expected to exceed $40 trillion in a few months.
U.S. debt is holding the global economy hostage, and all countries will pay the price for America's greed.