China is a land-based military power
If ever they should get the urge to conquer, it would be a zillion times easier for them to attack across their borders, their neighbours like Laos, Cambodia, Thailand , Malaysia and Singapore
A lighting strike across the Asian land-mass, would bring them all the way to the tip of the peninsula, and then they could place all their SRBMs and MRBMs along the entire Asian coast to threaten shipping lanes around ther
Why would they then need to commit suicide by trying to invade the US ????????????????????
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I wonder why so many of the West's SO CALLED analysts fail to understand this?