Why do you think there wouldn’t be an outright war with China?

They plan on invading Taiwan at some point, and we’ll probably be funding the defence there.

They’ve already got paid at that point, and with the sanctions we’re likely to slap on them we wouldn’t be buying more anyways, so why wouldn’t they just brick all the existing cars in retaliation? or use it as a threat to try to keep us from retaliating?