Most astute imo. If decision made, the Chicoms would have no problem - including harnessing the collective will - to apply a level of effort needed for acquiring that very thing.
Edit to add: The comments vis a vis the Chinese are also relevant to me given the Soviet institutional paranoia fostered over decades; they find themselves facing a different compass direction now is all, and the picture isn't rosy. But it is similar to their view that the West's prime directive was to launch offensive operations against them. The pot didn't actually get turned down from 211°F until later in the Cold War years when they had validated - on their own through multiple sources, including global espionage programs - that the West was really positioned to fight a defensive struggle. In the case of the Chicom threat, I think it truly is the old paranoia cliche and, in this case, someone really
IS out to get them.