Perhaps the Chinese communist party reads all the sites tracing Western decline and has decided that the time is ripe to put the West out of its misery?
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/china-readies-for-war-with-new-unmanned-super-tanks-powered-by-ai_03222018
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/690635/ww3-news-china-nuclear-military-unmanned-tanks-ai-technology
China is preparing for war, the above articles say, making use of AI and intelligent unmanned vehicles such as tanks, which will probably be better suited to the toxic chemically and nuclear polluted battlefield just around the corner.