The estimates are that there are about 40MM more men than women.
That’s one heck of a standing army, should the Chinese decide they could afford to march W, or N.
It is a DAMN good thing the Chinese don’t have an effective sealift capability.
I don’t know if they would ever deem it practical to try to civilize their own West. They have a humongous lot of it.
But they could use cowboys if they did. Water buffalo boys, maybe.
The Stans? how much would they have to pay to get Han to live in that dump?