Honestly, China is just a better funded and more aggressive version of Indonesia. They are just as bureaucratic hell as Indonesia with an equally clownish approach to foreign affairs.
For instance, their deliberate violation of Taiwan's airspace, a "grey zone tactics" meant to intimidate Taiwan, was comically bureaucratic for a supposed attempt at "flexing". So a western "journalist" who covered it got totally baited by China's stunts that he can only see that China "doesn't fear the US anymore", or is "increasingly aggressive", which is exactly what China wants world to believe.
When the statistics showing the trends of Chinese trespassing are hilariously regular and predictable. The Chinese attempt to look scary, unpredictable, and fearless, so they deliberately try to make their flights "look irregular" with seemingly random up and down. Yet you can clearly see the graph is like Tuesday this many planes will trespass, Thursday this many, Friday this many, and they all follow the same regular flight path. So that's just a planned, routinized, mindless bureaucratic form of bluffing.
People who got intimidated by China are totally fooled, believing in the exact image China tries to show to the world. When they're actually just a Kungfu guru with flashy moves and taunts, intimidating yes, somewhat dangerous yes, but isn't exactly what he said he is.
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