Always has been, always will be.
We ought to get into a shooting all-out war with them NOW, while we still have a chance.
I’d prefer to destabilize them, foment domestic insurrection, arm their minorities. Half the country isn’t Han despite hundreds of years of Sinicizing.
With any luck we could kick them back into a Warring States period or at least warlordism.
If it comes to a shooting war, let our regional allies take the losses, the Koreans, Indians, Taiwanese all have lots more infantry to lose than we do.