Look the united states is incredibly bloodthirsty and in my relatively short lifetime has killed absurd quantities of people in wars of choice. China hasn't invaded anyone as far as I know. I'm not saying they won't or don't want dominance but idk why we pretend that somehow China are the warmongers

I mean, to claim china isn't expansionist overlooks their extremely violent formation. That said, they haven't been very expansionist for many many hundreds of years.