It’s called a training aid for a reason. The scenario may never come to fruition; after all, who really wants a war with China? If you understand world economics, you recognize that while it is a possibility, I certainly wouldn’t want it to happen. I pray it doesn’t occur, but that’s not the main point.
Consider how many war games we conducted for War Plan Red before World War II, which was the strategy developed for a potential conflict with the British Empire and Commonwealth. War Plan Red was never executed. Similarly, War Plan Orange, designed for Japan, didn’t accurately reflect how events actually unfolded.