I just hope the Pentagon's policymakers and war planners are less myopic. if you stumble in a confrontation with this overconfidence, and still lose Taiwan to China, Pax Americana is effectively over. The humiliation will be impossible to recover from.
Did you ... Read that? It basically says that the blockade is military simple. The rest of it is political.
China lacks a deep water navy, they can't challenge a US blockade in the Indian ocean.