Economic in common business growth among all nations is healthy and natural.
China until very recently actually had an advantage by not letting the Chinese currency "float free."
China has "restive" areas where other faith systems can/do generate need for internal security. Places like Tibet. China has long been seen as an enemy of Vietnam, and the same goes for nations like Laos.
But those who "cast the US and China" in military terms as the US vs. China in my view are looking for trouble unnecessarily.
The tourist trade from the West and the US into China is worth billions of dollars to China's economy.
Think of the glass as half full not half empty. And recognize that China's economic stake in the US national debt is absolute proof of the good business partnership the US and China share in today's world. Even with the problems with other Asian nations you note, those issues are resolvable via more and more trade creating in common economic and financial/trade ties.
Have a good week.
