The Chinese are like little monkeys (French P/M Cresson called them "little yellow ants") who fell out of their trees and were too stupid to crawl back up.
Now they crawl all over the Earth instead.
They are generally a timid people who don't normally engage in open hostilities.
That they now want to hide their creepy round faces does not surprise me.
Note that while Buddha their most popular icon is pictured as a fat Chinese male, he was really originally from India and would have looked nothing like the statues of him in China.