[Well, China was at the cabinets, taking stock of canned goods, but he drops those as the scream echoes through the communicators, crying out in Mandarin and whipping around toward the offending object.]
Aiyaaa, what in the heck was that?!
...[He picks up the communicator and glares at it for a moment, frowning worriedly. Then:]
Japan! Hong Kong! Korea! Get in here NOW, aru!
[ooc: To clarify: China's seeing invading barbarian Mongolian hordes, which he can only guess must be evil spirits. More on Chinese ghosts
here. He'll be hallucinating things from the far past, and may be convinced he's still an empire by the end of it all.]