China? Nice people who play a long game ... very long, unlike “here today, gone tomorrow” Western politicians.
You know those little reefs in the “South China Sea”? The ones that can control all the commercial sea routes in that region? The Spratly Islands were on my desk on a weekly basis in the DIS in the mid-80s. Did anyone do anything? No, of course not. Some decades later, people are getting fluffy about what China is doing building its little chain of “unsinkable aircraft carriers”.
The Russian Bear is tactical. The Chinese Dragon is strategic.