The conflict between China and Vietnam was over 30 years ago and much has changed since then even much more has changed since the Korean War.China has obviously learned from it past conflicts.The Korean War in particular is a very poor rule of thumb to judge any of the nations involved in it with their modern selves.
For example during the 1979 war the PLA did not even use attack aircraft against Vietnam.
The whole secret is that China does not need to actually invade or attack any nation in the region by merely having an effective regional military power China gives itself much clout and makes its military more powerful than all others in the region.A conflict between the US and China is very unlikely it simply is not in either nations interests and China realizes this as does the US.Of course both sides do realize that they are possible foes just very unlikely ones.Both nations face much more direct and likely threats than each other.If anything the current relationship between
China and the US is beneficial to both parties.Over the long term the painful truth is that China will become more powerful than the US in all respects.
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