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China are expected to commence building more nuclear subs and surveillance vessels/ aircraft to counteract the AUKUS plans so I'm sure the military participants will be bumping into each other more often and causing some political spats.

I don't think AUKUS has anything to do with China's plans, they are on a full speed ahead expansionist policy already.

For political purposes China might use AUKUS as the excuse, but it's a pretty weak excuse.

From what I hear coming out of China's mainland they are going to be flat out avoiding an internal rebellion over the coming decades, so it's likely they'll pick some fights to act as a distraction for disgruntled youth / citizens. At the moment Xi relies on the ignorance of the rural isolated and a lack of transparency to the leveraging of overseas Chinese by threatening friends and family back home. Having other politicians carted off on live TV is about creating fear.