It's about who comes out of this worse off, China or the US. If they did choose to do this in their modelling they would have already calculated this all out.Yeah... China would kill off a ton of people and **** their economy just to make the rest of the world angry with them! Great theory!
Also the conspiracy theorist said this was a retaliation to the recent trade deal in which the US was set to make a **** load of money off of new tariffs. It was a retaliation against that and more personally against Trump.