for me, the current confrontations will eventually lead to a war. Only time will tell if this will be a full scale war or not.
in either case, chinese image is going to get badly hurt.... the image that was built since last three decades.... an army which lost all its war since 1967... was portrayed as world beater..... its war machine and its soldiers who never fought a war were labelled world class somehow.... that whole image will be in question in a month or two.
if china want to maintain that image they will never come back and continue to be pushed back.... and will be awarded their sixth defeat after 1967, both diplomatically and militarily.
they will show up eventually it will be a great show off.... lets wait for another 2 to 3 months mid October max.