That they do, to some extent. Depends also on how willing they are to sacrifice American markets, and the value of their holdings to pursue their version of a new world order. They could be they are very willing. China doesn't care that much about starving peasants in their own country if it's for the greater good.
China doesn't care that much about starving peasants in their own country if it's for the greater good. The Communist know they could lose 300 million people, and they'd be better off.
Compound this with the fact we owe them big time, and now can't continue to buy their garbage, shipped with their fleets of super freighters. And they have the ability to send our economy into a bottomless pit?
Not a real good scenario.