Strategically, would you attack China from here?

The problem is that if you decided to do so

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0911/c90000-9267419.html

they will be ready and waiting for you.

You see, China has this terrible obsession that they do not want to be humiliated again as they were with the Opium Wars and Czarist expansion over their lands.