Actually, China, Russia, North Korea are all going to hell in a handbasket, and that is the reason for all of the sabre rattling. Deflection at its finest. They need to go to war against the ugly Western influences so that it keeps the peasants occupied so as not to notice their internal troubles.
China has already collapsed. Their shadow banking system makes Evergrande look like a pawn shop. All stolen money and unaccountable. Think they call it Peer2peer lending. 500B and now all that crap they been talking about being a world power and crushing everyone. All the money has been stolen up and down the ranks of the military! The tanks, rockets, ships and missiles are nothing but tofu. Somethings not right. Now they got Covid II spreading worse than the first time. Their dishonesty has killed them from within.