I'm worried that China will build said killing machines only because they see that we are and feel the need to be prepared.

The last time China bombed a foreign country was 1979, 47 years ago. Has the US gone even 47 days in the last 80 years without bombing another country?

I got scared when I saw China's synchronized drone swarms at the Beijing Olympics, which I believe was the point.

Unless you're living in Taiwan, I don't think you have a lot to prepare for.

The myth of american moral superiority had been dead for a while. Why would china be any more evil than the US, which has waged far more colonialist wars and killed far more foreign lives in recent times (look at the news today for inspiration)

“I’m afraid my neighbor would kill my son, therefore, I’ll kill my son myself”

while you are worried about China, USI have done a genocide and started a new war.

China is currently a more morally virtuous country than the US.