The problem with China, is that they’re literally a paper tiger as as far as physical boots on the ground conflicts go. This is why they wage unconventional warfare like they have on the US. Their military is easily the worst in the world. They’re forever more in a state of mild civil war with half a dozen regiments refusing to take orders because they’re not getting paid by the CCP. Their “nuclear arsenal” consists of a bunch of half baked soviet missiles that would easily be shot down by our defense network in a live fire scenario. Their army has also never fought an actual war before, they’re they’re VASTLY inexperienced compared to every other military in the world.

Then there’s the Chinese “economy” It’s the single biggest lie in the economic world. China has roughly 100 times more debt than the US. They’re apparently the only ones not afraid to abuse the fiat system. Last I checked, they have something like 6 or 7 official state currencies. They’ll run one currency into hyper inflation territory by racking up tens of trillions of dollars in debt against it, then basically sideline it and create a new currency over and over again. The only one that they “try” to keep afloat is the Yuan, but even then they more often than not run it up with massive overprinting and then transfer the debt to a new currency they create our thin air whenever the debt gets too high so they can just default on the new currency while shielding the Yuan.

Then there’s the ridiculous governmental accounting books. China has more debt defaults than ANY other country on the planet. The only way you can invest in China and not get screwed is if you’re a corrupt ally of the CCP. They don’t “officially” default on these debt notes because they just take them off their books and then deny they ever existed in the first place. This doesn’t just apply foreigners either. I mentioned earlier large parts of the PLA are refusing orders because they aren’t getting paid. Well, that’s why. China literally doesn’t have enough money to pay their own army.

They also have a MASSIVE counterfeiting problem. Their money isn’t regulated like any other countries, so there are literally entire industries dedicated to just counterfeiting fake Chinese currencies and distributing them across the country, which pushes their economy even further down.

China’s real GDP, once you account for all the black money, off the book debt, worthless currencies that they create out of nowhere and print by the trillions to increase their GDP, etc. is really and truly probably only roughly a trillion, IF that. Japan is the true second largest economy.

Finally, let’s not forget that fact that China is literally experiencing God’s wrath at this point considering there isn’t a day goes by without a variety of natural disasters happening.

So yeah, China isn’t a threat as far as far as physical war goes. Their only a threat in terms of unconventional warfare.