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They don't have capacity to deal with the US intervening. If not for that, they would 100% be steamrolling everything they could. They've done it many times before and they'll do it again, just like everybody else in history.
China has successfully withstood US intervention and helped communist forces prevail in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. They also semi-successfully done the same in Korea.
They don't fear US intervention much, it's just that their modern foreign policy is targeted at stability and growth rather than immediate overthrow of capitalism.
If China tried to invade a country, that would give the US an excuse to come to that country's defense, and China does not have the resources to deal with that. Since they can't use hard power, they're using soft power.
Expecting altruism in geopolitics is hopelessly naïve.
I don't expect altruism. Stability and economic prosperity in the region is directly beneficial and profitable to China.
When military action is more beneficial and profitable to China, they will not hesitate to use it.