Decent article. Though it fails to mention that we’ve already fought a major ground war with China that was a horrible mauling for them. We may have forgotten, but the Chinese certainly have not.
The Chinese leadership did not care about the tremendous cost in their soldiers lives. The veterans of that war were not even allowed back into mainstream Chinese society.
The Chinese, culturally, have never valued soldiers. They are regarded as the least valuable members of society.
It is a serious weakness in their society, which we should be studying hard to exploit.
They have a 10th century vision of a military.
A major strength of the West has been its strong military tradition and value of soldiers as well as generals.