I traveled to mainland China for business nearly a dozen times over the past several years. All of their "news" outlets are state controlled, by the CCP. It's all propaganda, literally. Makes CNN actually look half honest.
Point being, when watching Chinese news and television, they would parade Chinese generals on the newscast and the generals would literally put a map of the US up on the screen and walk the audience through about which cities they would nuke first in the event of war with the evil US Imperialists. While showing what cities would be hit, they would juxtapose casualty figures alongside. It was very straightforward, not fucking around stuff.
The Chinese first strikes would be on Washington, then simultaneously hit major shipping hubs and key military installations.
The Chinese people have been conditioned for this for quite some time. Many want it.
Of course we have our military has their own war game scenarios, the difference is that we are not giddily displaying them on the nightly news to the population while crowing about how many Chinese we will kill.
The Chinese are not fucking around.