21st century China has been shown to being extremely averse to using large scale military intervention (in areas outside of its own borders) to achieve its foreign policy goals, at least in comparison to the other large military powers of the world (Just look at the long list of military interventions by Russia, the US, Britain and France in the last decade and a half). True there is the tension in areas such as the South China Sea, but the military overmanning in these areas are more in line with posturing then any sort of serious planning for a major military conquest (eg. invading Taiwan). Indeed aside from small scale support operations in Mali and West Pakistan there doesn't seem to have been a major Chinese foreign conflict since the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict. From my (admittedly ill-informed) point of view it seems that China has taken significant pains to avoid getting entangled in major international interventions, at least in a military sense (eg. the Libyan War, the Civil War in Syria, the War on ISIS). So I wonder what the Chinese Government would do if it faced a terrorist attack of such scale that the people (and Chinese prestige) would demand a military response (eg. if the China World Trade Center or another major symbolic building were destroyed in a terrorist attack with significant loss of life). How would the Chinese government respond? Would China try to engage in some sort of joint venture in the mid-east with a power already there (eg. USA or Russia)? Would China even have the military infrastructure and equipment necessary to support a significant military force (even if it is a Libyan style no fly-zone or a limited ground operation a la Russia in Syria rather than a full USA-in-Iraq style invasion) that far outside their borders? I imagine there would have to be some sort of military retaliation for such an event to prevent China from looking weak and impotent to the world and (of particular importance to the Communist Party) its own citizens. So what would China do in this situation if such an event forced a major foreign military intervention?