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It's an old and well worn rule never to underestimate your opponent, in military matters in particular.China isn't a threat. It's an inevitability.
It is also concomitantly imprudent to make your military enemy ten feet tall with big dicks. The CCP-PRC has many internal contradictions, shortcomings and self limiting factors such as to name but one debt increasing faster than GDP growth during most of the past decade.
The number aged 60 and older will comprise 40% of the population by the end of this decade with a fertility rate of 1.3 per woman. One in five Chinese younger than age 35 is set against marriage and prefers a cat to a child given the expenses plus being responsible for their parents in their old age.
Several years ago CCP DictatorTyrants in Beijing had to recall a significant number of retired Naval senior CPO because they were building so many ships yet the old hands knew little or nothing about the new naval vessels and they still need to read the manuals onboard to try to figure things out -- these guys won't be around long enough either to make any difference because they haven't any significant difference to make.
It is CCP Party-Government policy not to pay even adequately for military personnel, training, pay, assistance, benefits, facilities and so on for either active duty or retired because the Boyz in Beijing can't anywhere near afford the armed forces budget the USA has. The USA is hard pressed to sustain its military budgets yet we make the sacrifice the Boyz in Beijing cannot. It's fact anyway the CCP Party-Government has a much greater budget for internal control and domestic "security" than for its armed forces that are owned and controlled by the Party.