We are talking about different things here. It is true that the Chinese government is expanding its influence worldwide but also true that some Chinese firms have a genuine investment interest outside mainland. Chinese are more eager to build strategic partnerships instead of having a vendor/client relationship, and... they work really really hard, which is a natural strategic advantage.

Rephrasing the above post, sans adjectives: "building up foreign markets" - isn't that how globalization happens?

That's essentially what most Western European companies did (and probably) still do abroad, for the better part of two centuries.