Not a particularly helpful or thoughtful comment.  If that is where your head goes every-time someone criticizes the Chinese you should examine your own prejudices.  I almost gave you doughnut.

The paranoia of the "red barbarians" toward China is age-old, but deluded in a basic way.  A closer study of history indicates that Chinese territorial and imperial ambitions have always been largely limited.  China at its various zeniths has  always dominated more commercially than militarily or diplomatically.  In the place of expansionism that has characterized most other great powers, Chinese history is marked by the establishment of commerical colonies scattered far and wide.

See, I'm one of those white women... married 41 years to a Chinese. I'd buy that book, if only for the hilarious cover art.

I'm less amused, though, by Americans trying to cast China in the role of international boogeyman. Something about motes and beams, you know. And eyes.