There were other famous battles they had back then on their Russian border.
Recent years, it's clashes on their Indian border in Himalayas - so far just contact brawling, but with deaths.
Now they have a modern navy and air force. They do invasion related exercises near Taiwan routinely.
We encounter mainlanders daily all over Asia and Oceania. It's a different way of thinking - goal and expediency driven exclusively, with morality intentionally driven out.