China overestimates its importance to the US.
They are all over the South China Sea and now this. They’re worse than Russia really.
“China overestimates its importance to the US.”
On the other side of the coin, other than as a “volunteer” resource in any conflict with India, NoKo overestimates it’s importance to China. Some in China likely are of firm mind that NoKo hasn’t been grateful for the sacrifice of PLA volunteers in 1950-1953.