), which can be done with only a few weapons. With 99% effective SDI, Russia could only retaliate in the same fashion, except now their Pacific subs have no base of operations in the Pacific, which means they have to try and run the Atlantic gap.And, of course, Russia needs American ports intact to offload supplies for their invasion force, which kinda limits their options ; The US has no need for Vladivostok whatsoever. If China actually joins the war (thus making their debt issue moot, since the Treasury will simply...not buy the bonds back on their due dates due to them being, you know, held by an enemy state? Whoopsie, massive budget problems for China!), then the same applies: destroy the biggest Chinese ports with nuclear weapons, and no invasion can ever happen, while the Chinese are effectively knocked out of the war since their troops can't go anywhere.
More likely, China could try an use the opportunity to seize Taiwan, but only if the war is actually large enough to make America too busy to intervene ; Even then, they might like their massive foreign currency reserves in the form of American T-Bills too much to do even that.
