I think he's saying that Red China could revert to a police state/command economy with minimal disruption as compared to the affect her rendering the dollar worthless would have on the West. I for one firmly believe that Red China is still a committed enemy and is using the West to build Communism (the "Great Leap Forward"...but for real this time). Red China has managed to build itself up (not to mention the Eurasian Alliance as a whole) to a place where it can confront the West in ways were are only just beginning to imagine IMO.
Russia is also using the method that you described here, but in a different way. Russia actually uses Western funds to build its military. And, Russia and its sattelites are preparing to return to a Soviet command economy, per the latest oil seizure.