China has half a billion people to lift from poverty into the middle class, the whole of Africa and Latin America for this purpose. Your self-confidence is troubling.
Let's be honest.
China has hundreds of millions of units of cannon fodder.
These are males who will never get married or have a family, due to the one-child policy, in which Chinese families killed baby girls hoping they would eventually get a son.
China has a standing army that is second to none. Their main problem is how to get them across water - since their "navy" is pathetic.
This doesn't mean they won't seek expansion across land boundaries.
The Chinese government would be elated if their extra men perished in a battle for more power and control. It would kill two birds with one stone, as it were...
The guy’s a ChiCom supplicant.