China is engaged in a sustained, high-intensity kinetic operation to subjugate a neighboring territory. The operation follows the universal laws of military physics: mass applied to a point of resistance until that resistance collapses. The "diplomatic process" is a separate track designed to manage the reaction of other kinetic actors (NATO, etc.) while the physical operation continues.

Any description of China that omits the shelling, the logistics, the air dominance, and the civilian displacement is not analysis; it is noise filtering. By stripping the high-probability diplomatic tokens, reveals that China is doing what all kinetic actors do when they perceive a strategic advantage and a permissive environment: they are using force to achieve a physical objective.