We always look at the debt, but we should be looking at the credit bubble. Banks will loan people money based on what they think they will earn. For example, when you get a 30 year mortgage they assume you will be around for 30 years to pay that mortgage or at the very least that you will be able to then sell that house (and mortgage) to someone else.
Now suppose that 800 million people in China have really died. According to the WHO and other attempts at estimating the population of China it is now reduced from 1.2 billion to 400 million. If a person dies they are no longer able to pay off their mortgage, however, whoever gets the house will also get the mortgage that they must pay off. However, in a case where 800 million people go missing we also have millions of homes that are now vacant. No one is paying off that mortgage and no one needs to buy a new house when 2/3 of the homes are now vacant. In other words the total credit given in China to 1.2 billion people is now on the backs of 400 million. Most of whom will simply refuse to be responsible for it.
When a credit bubble bursts you are forced to sell assets at a discount. All these banks will be in a position of going bankrupt and will have to sell their assets at a discount. What are their assets? Probably mortgages. This could cause the property market in China to collapse.
Now this will certainly have a huge impact on the US. There is only one way in which the US can possibly hope to pay off its $36 trillion debt and remain solvent and that is if the global economy has a bull market. Without a bull market tax revenue will shrink and the ratio of debt to GDP will go above the critical level of 135%.
Now what Trump has done with his tariffs is to insure that there will be no global bull market. If his goal was to burst the credit bubble in China and eliminate China as a threat to world hegemony, then the tariffs make sense. But bankruptcies are like dominoes, when China is forced to sell US treasuries it will cause interest rates to rise and China going bankrupt will likely take other countries down with it, not least of those will be the US.
However, the global economic collapse cannot take place until the rapture because the Lord describes the situation as everyone is going about as though it is business as usual. And that gives you an idea of how close we are to the rapture.