We’re supposed to believe that China isn’t hostile to the west.It’s supposedly just ‘protecting’ it’s trade routes.Oh wait by taking out the defence assets of its ‘trading partners’ like the US and taking over its neighbours. 
As opposed to the reality that it’s using the revenues of that trade to build up its military and then luring its enemies into a localised war on its terms to leave its victims defenceless.While the mugs running the western governments are stupid enough to keep giving them the cash to do it and to walk into the trap because they are too scared to cut the trade that’s giving them the money to do it and meet the threat strategically on the basis of mutually assured destruction.In addition to pulling those vulnerable assets out of China’s obvious kill zone by cutting East Asia loose. 