“At the ‘heart’ of the Washington-Beijing conflict is ‘the reality that the two nations represent systems of governance that are diametrically opposed,’ Soros continued ... ‘The U.S. stands for a democratic, open society in which the role of the government is to protect the freedom of the individual’ ... ‘Relations between China and the U.S. are rapidly deteriorating and may lead to war’ ... PRC ‘a mortal enemy’ of the West ... ‘It’s a different system. It’s totally opposed to ours, diametrically opposed to ours’”
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/08/16/george-soros-xi-jinping-most-dangerous-enemy-free-world/

...China’s Military Strength

But perhaps in spite of all of this China is still more militarily powerful than the United States?

Extremely few key indicators point to such a reality. According to Beckley, "The United States has five to ten times the net military assets of China." American troops are better equipped, and better armed than Chinese troops. Beckley describes how American nuclear subs far outclass Chinese subs. There is no comparison in terms of military tech. The number of advanced aircraft and naval vessels available to the US—and which can be easily and frequently refueled and resupplied—is much larger.

Meanwhile, China faces many more geopolitical constraints in its own back yard than is the case for the US. China is partly hemmed in by wealthy and well-armed neighbors such as Taiwan and Japan. China’s attempts at annexing the South China Sea have earned the ire of the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Moreover, most of China’s neighbors have the ability to inflict real damage on China’s troops and other military resources.

Compared to the US, China must expend far more of its military in dealing with neighbors: "China must secure its land borders, which stretch fourteen thousand miles and include boundaries with fifteen countries…. China shares a bitterly contested fourteen-hundred-mile border with India." The border with Vietnam "remains tense." In 2014 and 2015, Chinese and Vietnamese forces exchanged fire. China borders North Korea, which is not exactly a source of serenity for the Chinese state.

The United States, meanwhile, borders two friendly nations, and is otherwise surrounded by huge oceans.

China is in no position to project power outside its own region at all, and thus Beckley concludes, China "cannot maintain sea or air control in its near seas; doing so in the Pacific Ocean or near the American cost is out of the question."...

“当前中国面临着越来越严峻复杂的国际环境，美国正在对中国实施越来越严厉的军事威胁、经济及科技封锁、金融打击、政治及外交围剿，正在对中国发动生物战、网络战、舆论战、太空战，力度越来越大地通过中国内部的第五纵队对中国发动颜色革命。如果这个时候，我们还要依靠那些大资本家作为反帝国主义、反霸权主义的主力、还在迎合美国的奶头乐战略，让我们的青年一代失去强悍和阳刚的雄风，那么我们不用敌人来打就自己先倒下了，就像当年苏联一样，任国家崩溃、任国家财富被洗劫、任人民陷入深重灾难。因此当前我们中国正在发生的这场深刻变革，正是为了应对当前严峻而复杂的国际形势，正是为了应对美国已经开始对中国发动的野蛮而凶猛的攻击。”
http://www.news.cn/politics/2021-08/29/c_1127807097.htm

“Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: /ˌʃɪnˈhwɑː/)[1] or New China News Agency is the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency

“China is currently facing an increasingly severe and complex international environment. The United States is implementing increasingly severe military threats, economic and [scientific] blockades, financial strikes, political and diplomatic siege against China, and is launching biological warfare, cyber warfare, and public opinion [warfare] against China. Wars and space wars have increasingly launched a color revolution against China through the fifth column within China. If at this time, we have to rely on those big capitalists as the main force of anti-imperialist and anti-hegemony, and are still catering to the American nipple strategy, so that our young generation loses their strong and masculine vibes, then we don’t need [to fight the enemy to fall], just like the Soviet Union [experienced], letting the country collapse, letting the country's wealth be looted, and letting the people fall into serious disaster. Therefore, the profound changes currently taking place in China are precisely in response to the current severe and complicated international situation, precisely in response to the barbaric and ferocious attacks that the United States has begun to launch against China.”
https://www-news-cn.translate.goog/politics/2021-08/29/c_1127807097.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=ajax,nv,elem

I was talking to a Chinese national a couple months ago. He told me that in China, no one watches the news - because it's all government "news," or propaganda.