If that were to happen, I would suspect world would care to a degree. It won’t go unnoticed.
However, Chinese would be out of their mind if they think they have reached a point where they can occupy a Country and face insurgency thousands of miles away.
Their economic interest would be wiped out at that point.
Its costing us 10 billion a month to stay in Iraq.
Chinese would be dreaming if they thought they could afford to engage in that behavior.
>>Its costing us 10 billion a month to stay in Iraq.
That’s because the U.S. has a moral conscience which prevents it from leveling the urban areas utilized by the insurgency to make mischief on the economic assets we’re there to secure.
China is not so encumbered.
Not necessarily. First off, they would not be "occupying", they would be colonizing. "Occupation" involves the idea of having the native population remain and continue to perform their jobs
Think about how the early British colonies in America dealt with the natives (and remember that Britain in the 17th and 18th Centuries was MUCH further away in terms of travel time and travel expense than 21st Century China is to Africa).
The colonists after a while greatly outnumbered the Indians, and displaced the natives.
How well would an African insurgency work if the Africans were outnumbered by Chinese colonists, Africans were forbidden to come near Chinese settlements, and any African violating the ban was shot on sight?