America has been trying to find a way to escalate conflict with China.
The powers-that-shouldn't-be built China up not so that Chinese people could enjoy an opulent and privileged position in the New World Order. This is all part of the "order out of chaos" ethos. If a conflict can be triggered between the world's two biggest super-powers... First of all, even though China is rapidly growing economically, they are still 20 or 30 years behind the American military in terms of conventional and other forms of military strategy and equipment. China is building it's army in a way that would allow it to wage prolonged proxy conflicts and stir up nationalist sentiment, while culling it's own overly large population... The reason that they have taken away the one child policy is because they plan to have many Chinese dying in conflicts soon, and so they already have a central plan to rebalance their demographics, phase out the younger people and replace them with automation and the like.

Of course, China vs USA will not be a total war... Rather it will be a proxy war, that involves a neutral South Korea, a militarized Japan, many non-aligned South East Asian countries. The Pivot to Asia is all about America being placed to re-draw the politics of the "Far East", or East Asia as it is called today.

The plutocratic oiligarchs that control America have had a plan this whole time. They want obedient and uneducated workers in the East Asia, so that they can phase out the American workforce and let it fall into poverty and destitution.

America is too hard to rule. It would be much easier to construct a scientific dictatorship based in Asia, where people are much more culturally accepting of a totalitarian central authority.

So the North Korean regime must be abolished, Korea must be unified, China and Japan must be brought to roughly the same level of development, China's population must decrease drastically (especially it's poor and lower class), and a new East Asian block must be formed bringing this entire landmass together.

To this end, a limited-scale war is necessary, to remind Asians of the disasters they suffered during the 20th century, and unite them from the fear of history repeating themselves, surrendering their national sovereignty in favor of a bigger system.

I live here in China, and I see the way the propaganda works. "America is evil. We must prepare for an aggression anytime. Be wary of the foreigners. Things are changing very fast. We must continuously adapt. Trust and embrace the CCP's policies and know it is guiding you towards the best interest of your people".

Except we know that since Mao died, there was a silent coup d'etat lead by Deng Xiaoping and the whole country was sold penny's on the dollar to the Rothschild cohorts of neocolonizers.

China is not an independent state, but a puppet of the secret powers that rule the world, much like America. So these two behemoths will be pitted against each other in order to phase out America's exceptionalism "world police" role in favour of a truer "Regional Block and an end of National Sovereignty" global system.

Because Japanese, Koreans and Chinese do not get along, at all, a war is the necessary threat that will unite all of them under one system.

Hope this little bit of speculative analysis based on what I've gleamed so far from my many years studying the subject and living in Beijing and reading the news here has helped cement an idea of the grand master plan that is at play.