The notion that China is a military threat, to the world, is both laughable and ignorant.
The Asian power, since Commodore Perry's visit, has been Japan which kicked China's
butt regularly since 1850, notwithstanding WW2.
Further, Taiwan is culturally/ethnically Chinese; being the home of Chiang Kai-shek who
ruled the Mainland from 1928 till his defeat by Mao in 1949, when he fled to Taiwan
which he and his Nationalist Party ruled till his death in 1975.
Taiwan, along w/Hong Kong, are Chinese foremost rather than bastions of Capitalism.
The assertion that they will fight to the death of preserve their economic system is hysteria.