Chinese know the a mini ice age is returning. Chinese dynasties have collapsed when mini ice ages occur. They have been acquiring farmland closer to the equator in recent years. They play the long game because they are the long game. The current US is nothing but a corrupt massively indebted bananna republic that will be gone soon.
I tell the locals that if they thought this past winter was bad, wait until you experience the next thirty or forty...tweaks the hell out of them.