“Launch in August of nuclear-capable rocket that circled the globe took US intelligence by surprise”

Not sure where your stand-off distance would be.

https://www.ft.com/content/ba0a3cde-719b-4040-93cb-a486e1f84...

Chinese and Russian hypersonic capabilities are a money bell for American defence contractors. For cross-strait warfare, they’re irrelevant. (Conventional artillery dominates at that range.)

Hard for American carrier based air assets and AEGIS cruisers to help defend Taiwan if they all got killed by hypersonic missiles.

That carriers would be sunk pretty much instantly is a given, and has been for a while now. The USN invests heavily in subs, and you don't hear much about them for a reason...