Regardless of the circumstances China will attempt to push a military situation on Trump within weeks of taking office in the White House to see what he’s made of. Apparently they weren’t impressed with the last occupant.
Remember what they did to bush 43
Escalated their harassment of south China sea recon ( which Wm Cohen the clinton SecDef reportedly FAILED to mention to the Bush team) until an aggressive pilot rammed a P3 resulting in the crew and aircraft being captured
Trump will face a crisis test almost immediately - Iran or China/ North Koreac would be my guess