The Chinese "long memories" pine for making reality again this political map...
This is more than Qing Dynasty boundaries. And we should not be sanguine about their risking direct attacks on the U.S. homeland to perfect their invasions and subjugations of these lands.
That's the Mongol Horde's map--except ol' Tamurlane never knew about Australia and New Zealand.
The Chinese do NOT have an ethnic presence to speak of anyplace but China and Taiwan. (Maybe N Korea.)
The rest of the ethnics in the countries on that map might not be real happy to learn that they are actually part of some grand Chinese design.
Which is just fine. The Paks and the Hindoos have nukes.