"Those are all minor disputes.
Contrast all those things that you listed with the British empire in China during the 1800s and early 1900s, with the Japanese empire in China during the 1900s, with the expansion of Russia during the 1700s on, etc...Compared to other cultures, China has historically been the least expansionist."
You've got to be kidding me. China, like any other country that has the power to do so including the US, wants as much hegemony as possible. China was non-expansionist back then because it was subordinate to other countries. Do you think that China's some sort of ethical, ideological country because it officially espouses some stupid ideology that uses imperialist as a derogatory term or says that it's against exploitation of the worker?
Ideology for them is a tool of oppression; it comes second to money and power. The same was true with the USSR. Do you think they discussed Marx in the Kremlin when forging alliances with leaders like Hafez Al-Asad, who killed his country's communists?
No, I was just saying that China is not a communist country anymore. It also has not been imperialist, historically, compared to its neighbors.