There are significant fissures between the regions (Northern, Central, Southern/tropical, Coastal, Hong Kong, and Taiwan). They have gorged on dirt cheap credit for decades while stealing/reverse engineering our tech and taking advantage of Bretton Woods while manipulating the yuan. Some of this has been aided and/or done with the consent of the borderline treasonous political and business class that offshored our jobs (Apple should be ashamed). Those unique historical factors are the only way the Communist Party been able to consolidate power in Beijing and keep it for so long.
Those days are close to over. There will be a massive economic and social reckoning in The People's Republic eventually.
I'd say the US is an agitated country right now. Poking us in the eyes historically does not end well for anyone and would hasten that reckoning.