you misunderstand chinese mindset. europeans are indeed like you said, we are idealists who seek to mold the world at our view. wherever we go we desire to make the locals be like us. we give them our religions, our languages, our political systems.... the first european colonial project after the end of the roman empire was the crusader states. chinese are different. chinese are basically traders. wherever they go they form their own closed communities, and are just looking to make money. china does not want to go to africa to spread chinese culture. they just want to trade.
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