@Caleb James DeLisle @xaetacore@neondystopia.world To come to this conclusion, you have to ignore quite a bit of predatory behavior by China.
Some things off the top of my head.
It's domination of the South China Sea, at the expense of Viet Nam, Malaysa Indonesia and the phillippines.
It's constant provocations toward Taiwan and to a lesser extent, Japan and the Phllippines.
It's Belt and Road initiative, which seems innocous on the surface but it executed in a highly predatory mannor, like unto colonization.