Valid point, but something I didn’t really mention is that China’s military doesn’t have an outward purpose. The PLA just wants to keep China and the CCP itself stable. They don’t really do operations out of the country (except in the South China Sea). So maybe they could do a similar operation, they just really don’t want to.

I still think China couldn’t do Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya like we did. It’s just not possible for them.