Understand that China, culturally, doesn't focus on World Domination. They view China as being able to attain heaven on earth and that as the "Central" Kingdom, between earth and heaven, they have the mandate to hold at bay the "Four Barbarians."

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/03/08/the-demise-... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Barbarians