Unless there's something being done to the raging dictatorship, the event makes the dictatorship more determined to spread and demonstrate its influence over the region. And the US does nothing, it actually is unable to do anything to CCP at this point, but it shows the audience meaningless posturing that don't lessen dictatorship's influence.
we are in agreement with at least one, but very important point - offering the dictatorship to escalate confrontation is counter-productive at this point (maybe not so much some time in the future under different circumstances), because the US will not be able to afford itself to save Taiwan if CCP decides to escalate it further this time.
