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> I've never understood what business and governments in the west thought was going to happen by investing so heavily in China. Did they really think China would just bend over backwards and take it like every other poor third world country they did this to?

To be fair a given business in the U.S. that produces something isn't going to care about geopolitics. They made things in the U.S. by underpaying immigrant laborers, then when they noticed wages were cheaper in mexico they moved manufacturing there, then did the same when China became even cheaper and higher quality than Mexico. All these business leaders care about is quarterly profits and getting bonuses to personally enrich themselves as fast as possible. They could care less about what happens in the world around them if they can afford to drink their cares away in utopian Napa.

“ China as a country and culture only cares about one thing. Making the entire world an empire for the Han. They see everyone else as inferior, barely human.”

Easy does it MAGA. The PRC is a different animal than regular Chinese people.

Yes, hence why I said as a country and culture and specifically left out the people. The average person. is typically not the one responsible for such decisions.

However, China's global ambitions and their xenophobia goes back much further than the PRC.

Global ambitions? Like invading countries and killing millions just to fix the oil price and pump more money into weapon industry?

Hindsight is 20/20 of course. I guess they wanted to prevent a 2nd USSR, and thought that stimulating capitalism would also stimulate democracy.

Because in the end, let's face it, the real problem is the CCP and not China itself. If China was a democratic country, the threat would be way smaller.

Chinas ambitions and culture go back further than the PRC. Their goals have nothing to do whITU communism.

People really don't seem to get this. The communism red herring is just the same red herring it was with the USSR.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20083309

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230286771_7