ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
They're going to need either a war or a plague to correct that.
Their equivalent of the US War College has a plan that got leaked a couple years back where China would get into a major ground war on the border with India and send in large armies of conscripted ground forces without air cover, artillery, or armor and then let the Indians slaughter them.
Meaning that they'd considered this idea. Right now I don't think their economic forecasts can support the idea because such a war would mean China's trade would grind to a halt and it also would mean that the nations around the South China Sea would likely align with India and then China would be fighting a two-front war and their military model can't manage that.