China is busy annoying most of the countries that surround it. These are not insignificant countries. Russia, India, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and the US have all had just about enough of China’s crap.
And yet our deep state still treats Russia as an enemy, has NATO on its borders, and uses Putin as a straw-man excuse for every stupid Democrat political scheme. Weird.
Unfortunately, this will result in war...and they (Xi and the CCP) accept this.
In fact, given what they are doing in the South China Sea, in the Himalayas, and in Taiwan, it is apparent that China's leadership is trying to force the issue.
And why not now. The developed countries in the world are in a state of lockdown due to the virus "they" released and the United States is more divided than it has been since the 1860's.
From China's POV, the iron is hot.