It’s conducting war games that completely surround Taiwan.

This is not a one sided provocation. We do war games with South Korea and Japan every year where we pretend to invade China and North Korea.

It’s claiming a ridiculous area for it’s EEZ, far larger than international law allows and completely disregarding any potential EEZ for other countries in the area.

The waters that China (both the PRC and ROC btw) claims were promised to them under an international treaty that predates the League of Nations China never agreed to cede those waters, other countries started sailing in them during the Chinese Civil War when neither side could enforce their claim, and the modern UN’s position is that China lost their claim through lack of enforcement.

It’s sinking fishing vessels in international water

You mean the one fishing vessel that sank in an accident? The Chinese crew was grossly negligent, sure, but you make it sound the PLAN is sailing around shooting at fisherman.

It’s hacking the government systems of it’s neighbors

We all do that. I agree it’s bad but there would need to be a mutual stand down agreement.

the cpc adjusts the American version of an app operated in Singapore to propagandize Zoomers

This only happens in the minds of the paranoid. China has their own version of TikTok, Douyin, which operates under their media restrictions.

The rate of profit is declining and the managers are looking for anything and everything to prop it back up. A German guy wrote about this like 150 years ago.