PRC, just like Putin’s sabre rattling has more to do with internal generation of support for a regime no longer in good favor.
That does not mean the PRC will not attack these speck-o-islands.
If and once we get a responsible POTUS, they will not confront us. If anything, the Chinese understand history.
Starting right now, world aggressors have one year to take advantage of a very weak POTUS. At the end of that year, they need spend the remainder of the term completing and cementing their positions such that a new strong POTUS cannot do anything about it.