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This movie has been running around in my head long enough, using up valuable brain cycles.

It would have been shown as a Saturday morning movie in the UK, circa '80s.

Villians were Chinese and were tunneling under the Pacific. From what little I can remember I believe it was some form of invasion. Sorry for so little information.

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This is surely Battle Beneath the Earth, a cheesy B-movie from 1967. According to the plot summary on IMDB:

A Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels dug all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean. The man who has discovered this is locked up because they think he is insane. US Navy soldiers go underground to repel the invaders.

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    My primary school used to show us a movie every Friday afternoon, presumably for not burning the school down during the week, because I can't imagine we did anything else to deserve it. That was one I remember. Nothing quite makes a B-movie fun like a school full of kids eating more-or-less 100% sugar while it's on.
    – StephenG - Help Ukraine
    Commented Apr 5, 2023 at 20:26
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    @StephenG-HelpUkraine - Weird that they'd punish you so harshly for not burning the school down, but schools do weird things sometimes. Not my school, not my place to judge.
    – T.E.D.
    Commented Apr 5, 2023 at 22:29
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    @T.E.D. Our school had these insanely huge windows which were repeatedly broken by local vandals exploring structural mechanics. Someone had the bright idea of using huge panes of very strongly plastic. No more breaks. They then tried to burn the windows. They didn't burn or break but they warped one heck of a lot making the view way more interesting. So, who knows, maybe we were being rewarded for not burning the place down ? It was, however, a terrible shock later discovering secondary school didn't show movies at all, even B-movies.
    – StephenG - Help Ukraine
    Commented Apr 5, 2023 at 22:43
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    Checked the trailer on imdb and as soon as the mad scientist appeared raving on the screen I knew it was the same film. Glad I've got those brain cycles back, thanks.
    – Matthew Reece-Ford
    Commented Apr 6, 2023 at 17:56
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    @MarkMorganLloyd Yes, that's the one. The deep mine was in "Oregon" (the actual filming location was somewhere in SE England), and the antagonist, the evil Chinese general, was trying to defuse the bomb that the American hero had rigged to go off, realised he couldn't, and just sat quietly next to it as it counted-down and exploded.
    – Clara Díaz Sanchez
    Commented Apr 8, 2023 at 22:14

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