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China does have a great number of civilian ships that are basically fishing boats ready to turn into supply craft and 1shot landing vessels.
But the use case for a missile like this is basically filled completely by the gun that they still slap on every warship, or a WW2 style strafing run by anything on a carrier
i think that SDB is also an option, maybe it'll need a new sensor or something, but it has enough of warhead, it exists, and it's cheaper
SDB-II can do moving targets I think.
That simplifies things a bit