Is China a Competing Power?

i think there wasa lot to unpack thher. And i want to start first the idea of protection. The best example race of memory is the way the us. Handled afghanistan, and in particular the exit. I'm wondering if something like, oh, my god, china stepped in during the russia ukranian war, and they saved ukrane is. China the new globa like power, validating their dei with sa arabia,. Then other countries started to go to them, an exit like what? What in your mind is the type of event that would take the u m s out of that stature that it strangely still holds