It makes zero sense to provoke China now, especially at a point when the Russo-Ukrainian war has polarized the globe. And this time, the US administration is solely to blame. There was no provocation from China. It was the US which started all this drama by sending Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. China is in a situation similar to Russia. Gradually they are being surrounded by American bases in RoK, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines. And when they tried to establish a naval base in the Solomon Islands, the Americans went ballistic and sabotaged that plan by threatening the Solomon Islands regime.

I don't know whether Trump would have done any better. But his term (2017-2020) was devoid of American involvement to major global conflicts. Biden came to power in 2021 and all the drama started once again.