I'm trying to figure out what exactly this is getting at? Is the worry that these requests to random Chinese servers are nefarious or is this some random piece of software pinging a server for some tiny piece of information?

“ICP Beian” stands for the process of obtaining the Business ICP registration number that allows you to host your website on a Mainland Chinese server. [0]

So these communications could be literally anything on the phone and all we know is that it's communicating with a server in mainland China?

[0] https://www.tmogroup.asia/entering-china-ecommerce-icp-beian...