China is the world factory here. Any attacks to it will do more damage to themselves than China. This much has been proven. I believe in China that it will overcome this obstacle no matter how difficult.
In the era of Peak Oil, climate change, deforestation, resource depletion, population overshoot, pollution, etc limits to growth have already been hit anyway, Covid is a suppressant no doubt, but even without it the world was gonna hit a wall.... only way out of this is techology, and hope new breakthroughs can pave the way such as clean fusion, biomed, other cutting edge stuff...
In luei of tech breakthroughs this status quo wasnt gonna be sustained much longer anyway...
China needs to focus on self reliance now more than ever. Develop its domestic internal markets. Its large enough to live comfortably within itself.