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I'm not from America or Europe or China, but many countries might prefer the status quo of American hegemony to imperialism by any other country because they prefer a known devil. Starting 2030 you could ask what business the Chinese have acting as an imperial power but the answer then will be as obvious then as it is now - because they can.

In under the impression that the US acts as an imperial power firstly because it's very integrated into the world economically and diplomatically so it works hard to protect those interests. It's easy to say that the US shouldn't have to do these things but it seems that the US involving themselves pretty heavily in world politics is good for them even if the overall effect on others is more debatable (especially with some large missteps recently)

I moved from the US to Asia last summer. Not quite sure what the US is doing differently than other governments. Imperialism has been dead for quite some time.