Deep culture is difficult to change. Mao tried his best to forge Chinese culture into a militaristic, collectivist culture and for a while it worked - see the Korean War where the PLA volunteers earned a fierce reputation as being no less courageous than the Imperial Japanese - but ultimately it wasn’t sustainable because while all those brave volunteers died, their more cowardly counter parts back home bred, and so the new generation of Chinese lost the edge of their predecessors.
The truth is, prosperity and abundance - normally the hall marks of a successful civilization - are ever cultivators of weakness in martial spirit. If people can afford to hide behind civility and peace and still procreate successfully, then they will. Strength of arms comes from constant violence and hardship. Thus the northern nomads of old were forced to be superb warriors, since their societies were brutal, violent environments where only the victors of the incessant tribal wars got to breed and pass down their genes & values. Weak men were simply weeded out & their women enslaved.
No such filter exists in Chinese society. You are not rewarded for being violent but punished, because the society is primarily one of producers and such people abhor violence since it disrupts their productivity. Hence do not be surprised if the Chinese response is more economic and demonstrative in nature without crossing into overt violence. You cannot change the nature of Chinese society just with slogans & history lessons. To truly become a martial society you must create the conditions - ie rewarding it with reproductive success like the nomads did. I’m not sure people here really wants that for China.