Trump while in Office nearly started World War III with the Chinese: which was unknown to most Americans at the time

 I believe this was just after January 6th when the Chinese military was freaked out by what happened at the Capitol building in the insurrection. So, this happened sometime between January 6th and January 8th 2021.

This is a quote from the book "Peril"  by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa:

"Two days after the January 6th 2021 violent assault on the United States Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, General Mark Milley, the Nation's senior Military officer and chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff, placed and urgent call on a top secret, back-channel line at 7:03 am to his Chinese Counterpart, General Li Zuocheng, chief of the Joint Staff of the People's Liberation Army.

Milley knew from extensive reports that Li and the Chinese leadership were stunned and disoriented by the televised images of the unprecedented attack on the American Legislature.

Li fired off questions to Milley. Was the American Superpower unstable? Collapsing? What was going on? Was the U.S. military going to do something?

"Things may look unsteady," Milley said, trying to calm down Li, whom he had known for 5 years. "But that's the nature of democracy. General Li. We are 100 percent steady. Everything's fine. But, democracy can be sloppy sometimes."

It took an hour and a half-45 minutes of substance due to the necessary use of interpreters- to try to reassure him. When Milley hung up he was convinced the situation was grave. Li remained unusually rattled, putting the two nations on the knife-edge of disaster.

Milley had witnessed up close how Trump was routinely impulsive and unpredictable. Making matters even more dire, Milley was certain Trump had gone into serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless conspiracies.

Milley had misled General Li when he claimed that the United States was "100 percent Steady" and the January riot was just an example of a "sloppy" democracy.

To the contrary, Milley believed January 6th was a planned, coordinated, synchronized attack on the very heart of American Democracy, designed to overthrow the government to prevent the constitutional certification of a legitimate election won by Joe Biden.

Milley could not rule out that the January 6th assault, so unimagined and savage, could be a dress rehearsal for something larger as Trump publicly and privately clung to his belief that the election had been rigged for Biden and stolen from him.

This is the end of the quote from the beginning of the book "PERIL" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa