China’s inability to compete with the US on a global basis does not mean that it could not challenge the US in East Asia, or that war over Taiwan is impossible. Weaker countries sometimes attack when they feel backed into a corner, such as Japan did at Pearl Harbor or China did when it entered the Korean War in 1950.
中国在全球范围内难以与美国竞争的事实并不意味着它也不能在东亚范围内对美国形成挑战，否则有关台湾的战争就不可能了。有时，较弱的国家在他们感觉自己陷入困境时发起攻击，诸如日本在珍珠港或中国在1950年参加朝鲜战争所做的那样。