China has always seen it's direct neighbours as "buffer" zones. Historicly they have always been keen on having these nations as client states or occupied protectorates, this is nothing new and can't really be linked to their relatively new communist government. They have been scrapping over Korea and taiwan for centuries (if not longer).
Some folks in the west are still obsessed with this capatalism v communism thing and see China as the new russia, an evil red beast just waiting to spread communism like a crimson plague across the world.
Sure China is a potential threat to it's direct neighbours if they can't secure client state status over them, but this has been the case for 3 thousand years. On a global scale the Chinese are more focused on economic dominance because it's the age old method by which they have always succeeded. It took a superior maritime, economic empire (the British) to knock them off their perch and now there is no longer such a threat as America is in China's pocket now, financialy speaking.
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