China is mostly reactive though, they don't actively pursue conflict like USA does
Sorry but I disagree with you on this. They are extremely aggressive towards their neighboring countries and actively seeks for conflicts specially if they find out there are natural resources they want.
If you don’t believe me just google how they behaved when they found out there are Natural Gas reserves in deep South China sea.
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They just claim international territories as their own willy nilly and claim other independent countries and lands as their own. China is USA in Asia but even worse. No democracy, constant negligence of human rights, make people disappear, try to debt trap every country under the sun, no respect towards Copy rights or IP etc. It’s one of the worst countries after North Korea. We are unlucky to have USA and China in the world. Territorial bullying pricks
Trumps biggest failure is that he made China looks reasonable.
You can make a deal with Xi knowing that he's not going to fuck up a deal that's beneficial to China. Can you say the same thing about Trump?