I don't see it.

If this was WWIII then the US just got wiped out.

Less than 5k people are supposed to have died due to Corona virus in China and they accelerated the time frame for when they should overtake the US as the world's biggest economy by about 5 years.

They just managed to sit a puppet as the US president against the will of the people and their plans to install tyranny all over the world seem to have been accelerated. Debt skyrocket, small business got blasted in the ass and the massive multinational companies that China is buddies with were benefited.

COVID gave China and authoritarian sociopaths around the world everything they wanted.

I don't see it. If this was WWIII the US just got wiped out.