Given their track record and recent trajectory i’d place that point at 15 years after the death of Xi at the earliest.

Their economy is beyond FUBAR, the brain drain is extreme and the culture is counter productive for actual advances(996 is lunacy)

They can’t make a chip that’s 100th as advanced as a modern GPU which works correctly using equipment that’s no longer available to them after spending that went 95% into a corruption black hole.

Tailscale, expose nothing to the wider web if not actually needed.

I haven’t seen my connection be less than a gigabit in either direction for the last 10 years. Fibre is non-negotiable when I’m moving into a new place now.

Get a real router, there are cheap computers that can easily run pfsense or opnsense.
Most easy options are also relatively easy to get around.