Psyop to dissuade China from invading Taiwan?
Who is to say the person that replaces him will be any better?
Communists are pathological liars. Commie countries get away with using the craven western Press to carry their propaganda. China’s military is far more hollow than it appears. And it’s economy too. It’s officers and especially Generals are chosen first for loyalty to Xi and the CCP. Just like in Stalinist Russia, the military looks powerful. But look what fits tiny Finland delivered to the Greeeeeat Russia. Stalin had purged the Red Army of any competent officers. China is in a similar boat. China’s political Army got its butt handed to it by the Vietnamese some years ago.
The US military needs China to be a dangerous enemy. If there wasn’t China they would invent something else. In fact, the rise of China is probably the reason the US under Biden has pulled out of Afghanistan. As an enemy with a domestic hi-tech arms market China is a much preferred adversary for the US military and Arms manufacturers. Ever growing budgets are assured for the foreseeable future.
Anyhow, my 2 pence... or probably dollars soon.