My reaction, as well.
Count me in on the “not a happy thought” crowd. Sure Russia was dangerous but they almost always backed down if you refused to be scared by their shoe-pounding rhetoric and didn’t cut your military forces to Carter levels. They were overextended keeping a hundred satellite states/areas enslaved plus their manufacturing capacity sucked eggs and they knew it. The only thing the Soviets were every really good at was bullying.
On the other end of the scale we have China. The only enslaved areas they have to worry about are Tibet and a couple islands, they’ve proven far more capable to reproduce stolen Western technology, they have all the manufacturing that the West USED to have, and they’re facing a demographic crisis with millions of angry men. Not a good combination.