I don't think Mao's book of strategies is unknown or as obscure as might be thought. Rather, in the West equivalent periods involving far many more players to the Warring States period in China have long provided similar lessons, and likely more examples of deception.
It is good to remember that in 1911 there were 1000 princes in Russia. In 1921 there were none. The whole of the West was full of scheming nobility and moneyed interests prior to WWI, and it is unlikely those that prevailed in those conflicts left their posterity vulnerable to the tactics that created their hegemonies.
"China could dump its vast holdings of U.S. government debt. Flooding the market with treasuries would push down US bond prices and cause the yields to spike. That would make it more costly for U.S. companies and consumers to borrow, in turn depressing America’s economic growth."
In particular, this reveals a naivete that is breathtaking in it's failure to grasp fractional reserve banking's core features, such as are becoming better revealed and known today as financial markets are continuously manipulated to keep the flow of wealth into the pockets of overlords going.
Regarding fentanyl, the more China ships to the US, the better off we are. Should they stop, we'll have to manufacture it ourselves, or get someone else to, lest the CIA fracture into a thousand pieces. It is they, after all, that control the ratlines and black markets of the world, from drugs, to organs, to child sex slaves.
In these markets, and in those competencies, I think the Chinese are yet neophytes compared to the West. Brutal oppression crushes opposition and leaves one without competition. Competition for corruption in the West has sharpened the tip of that spear, and I yet reckon we are without peer.
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Edit: if I am wrong, or if China is unaware of this, now is the time they will strike. It is spring across the Northern Hemisphere, the traditional time to take and hold ground militarily. If the enemedia can be believed at all, China has exited the harm pandemic inflicted, while the West is just beginning to feel it's affects.
There has never been a better time than now to crush the West militarily, if China has that goal.