literally everyone has tried to take over china, from the mongols to the british to the japanese. i bet even the romans had some half-assed plan they were working on.
China was an Empire because they tried(and succeeded) taking over neighbours by force, including Mongols and Japanese.
To portray Chinese like saints or victims is not knowing about the thousands of years you talk about.
Uhm... You clearly have no idea about China.
First, it was _itself_ conquered by Mongols ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_China ). Who were then simply assimilated.
Second, China has never conquered Japan.
Overall, China has been remarkably non-aggressive.
They're no saints. Anybody can see that. But by my estimation 90% of the discourse around China in the west is just pure consent manufacturing.
OKAY BUDDY.
you are literally just making shit up.
Come on, China was pretty irrelevant to the outside world until the US started pumping money into it in the 70s. That's exactly what the West should stop doing.