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And they will be closed after dark too, somehow.

Tibet, Vietnam.....

Lots of other countries are afraid of an invasion in south east Asia, at minimum a seizure of their fishing territories and waters.

Currently we are discussing a possible invasion of Taiwan.

Oh there's also the modern border conflicts with India and the Sino-Indian war in 1962 and flare ups since.

All of which is to say, don't mistake an inability to project power outside of their region with an unwillingness to be an imperialist bully. China was involved in the Mali war with the UN, and were a Chinese company to have it's investments in insert African or Latin American country threatened by a "socialist" government nationalizing it they would be just as likely to pull the same BS as the US did in Latin America in the 20th century if they could actually project power there.

Or how LGBT relationships and "sissy-men" get censored out the wazzoo in popular Chinese Media and on social media.

Fun fact my mainland Chinese friends started saying "this humiliates China" without any other context on their social media because they weren't even allowed to say they were lonely during lock downs due to censors.