China will do something. My guess is that they will do something constructive without creating too much a mess. Likely it will be asymetric and over several months and years.
In modern world of 5 second tik tok videos and youtube 5 min fame, this episode will be gone from memory faster than people think. What matters is the long term facts on the ground.
China can really just sit and wait and wait, while PLA gets more suprior vis a vis Taiwanese, for every year. In due time the American will to fight for Taiwan will be gone, just like the will to fight for Ukraine.
And does anybody really care that much about Ukraine anymore?? Except the Ukrainians themselves who do, but the rest of the world is slowly moving on.
No one today care about 2 million Iraqis who died. Many people werent even born when the war happened. And Vietnam?? They are now US buddys.
World is a strange place.