Im sorry what? Why are people so dead set on expecting China to just directly confront America right this second. China is still rapidly building up its military and working to build global alliances. Did you expect them to do D-Day 2.0 in California next year?? Its just like when the Soviets played nice with the germans to buy time.
The CPC literally puts their plans out publicly. You can go read them. They have said and continue to say they plan to launch their campaign for international revolution by 2050.
Also this isnt them capitulating at all. China only ever put the tariffs on the US in response to US tariffs. They don’t have any interest in over Tariffing American goods and already went to alternative markets for goods they were getting there, like Brazilian soy years ago, which wont be undone by this.
So China effectively lost nothing and got their tariffs lowered to based on the statement im reading 30%. While themselves maintaining a 10% tariff on US goods.
Which allows them to keep biding their time and building up. And oh look at that just today they released a white paper on national security outlining just that intention. Which you can find out about at https://english.www.gov.cn/news/
I get that in the west things seem dire, and you feel like Chinese paratroopers need to rain down tomorrow or the world is fucked, but the longer they buy time the better position China will be in. Slow and steady wins the race for a reason.
Have you considered that the situation we just got a 90 day pause on was untenable for China too? That they had a massive backstock of goods and were facing deflationary pressure internally? In what way does slowing Chinese progress and modernization help the socialist cause? The Americans are doing a perfectly fine job running their country into the ground, and do not need Chinas help in doing so. Chinas focus is on improving their own position not weakening the western position.