This shows just how scared he is of US military retaliation against his regime for unleashing the Wuhan virus upon the US and the world. It's a premonition that fire and brimstone awaits him. He knows it.
Notice how he openly became an Ah Beng after the Biden laptop scandal? That's because all his chips for ransoming Joe Biden have been exposed. He was betting Biden to win, but now it doesn't matter anymore, because whoever wins, China/CCP/Xi Jinping will be the enemy of US.