Unless China  is going back to Stalin style police state and totalitarianism! This is because the economy deteriating will getting back slash by many people, only a massive force to chop down thpse opposition voices! Xi Jinping just does not have that kind of strength! In the past 29 years after 4/6/1989 China has going through a low porfile low military spending in the 1990s that achieve the present economic miracle! It is a bubble and it might burst if  a change of defense policy!