Are you serious? You think God-less Communism is benign, versus being driven by a lust for power, as its master is (as well as the Western Left)? The Chicom's are more patient however.
China Has Two Paths To Global Domination..the signs that China is gearing up to contest America’s global leadership are unmistakable, and they are ubiquitous. There is the naval shipbuilding program, which put more vessels to sea between 2014 and 2018 than the total number of ships in the German, Indian, Spanish, and British navies combined. There is Beijing’s bid to dominate high-tech industries that will determine the future distribution of economic and military power. There is the campaign to control the crucial waterways off China’s coast, as well as reported plans to create a chain of bases and logistical facilities farther afield. There are the systematic efforts to refine methods of converting economic influence into economic coercion throughout the Asia-Pacific and beyond...
Not least, there is the fact that a country that formerly disguised its ambitions now asserts them openly. China has entered a “new era,” Xi announced in 2017, and must “take center stage in the world.” Two years later, Xi used the idea of a “new Long March” to describe China’s worsening relationship with Washington. ...Beijing has invested heavily in advanced air defenses, quiet submarines, anti-ship missiles, and other anti-access/area -denial capabilities necessary to keep U.S. ships and planes away from its shores so that it can have a freer hand in dealing with its neighbors.- https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/05/22/china-has-two-paths-to-global-domination-pub-81908Likewise, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/australia-growing-reach-china-s-military
No, I think it’s anything but benign. But I think it’s assets in Australia. Call them traitors, or what have you, are a much more immediate threat.