if they flop past a certain point, their stagnation, inability to capture one island despite posturing as equivalent to the US (which has already cleared Kharg before we even get the occupying force there at all, i am sure the marines being moved from japan are going to occupy kharg), it's obvious bullshit to anyone but the most ardent CCP defenders.
you've gotta imagine that as these chinese princeboys grow up, they're going to be some of the worst soldiers you could dream up. like if we were recruiting exclusively from liberals. sickening to even consider. china knows it's on a timer to get its shit together, and they've been trying a lot of tricks to do that, but all those tricks will bite them in the ass eventually; the chinese military will be full of conscripts who don't even want to be there, with radars and anti-air that don't function against our craft, while the majority of our fighting force is, even when they hate being in the military, capable of passing their drills and following orders, and are equipped with some of the most advanced weaponry the world has ever witnessed.