That is the development I least desire, so that is the expectation of my inmost fear.

Hm. I wouldn't have thought that.
We may be well advised to remind ourselves that to have fear in a dark street where dubious businesses are going on is justified, or a killer coming towards us, or fearing the criminals who traffic humans and their children through open borders, who then build up their networks in our very neighborhoods.

I understand that Russias SMO in Ukraine might be dealt by your mind as something that was so much provoked by the US, that the Chinese might copy that reaction. But since US does not chase and murder Chinese or Chinese speaking people within your country and does not treat them their official enemies or worse, Untermenschen within its own spaces, I would not think of the Chinese government to undertake a similar SMO. It is not enough to treat them as adversaries in foreign politics, I think. Since they are anyway stronger.

Another McGregor Video where he also touches the subject of China a bit: