Exactly. And their bomb would probably be able to be fitted into a lunch box :-)
Let’s let the Japanese deal with this. China wants to let their little proxy behave badly; why do we need to do anything when Tokyo is the one with a bigger stake. We simply let the Chinese know that if THEY attack Japan it’s game on.
If we issued the permission now, they'd have 100 fully-functional, fully-fittable-to-missile nuclear weapons in 8 hours.