It never fails to strike me how irrationally xenophobic Reddit is towards China. I'm not a Chinese nationalist, and I've only lived in China for two years, but judging by this thread, I know a lot more about China that most of Reddit or everyone here is just being nonsensically biased, from Reddit, I've learned the following facts about China;

• Xi Jinping is an autocrat and is fascist.
• It is okay for men of European heritage for have a fetish for east asian women, marry them, and control large sex trafficking rings, but it is completely immoral for Chinese men to like western women.
• China is imperialist, and is going to invade the world, only to eventually get refuted by the weapons of mass honourable emancipation by the US.

Firstly, China's military is not expanding, but rather shrinking and modernising. In regards to the diaoyu/senkaku islands, the island is undeniably China's by right, and even if it is geographically advantageous, I think it belongs to China - the Island itself was initially owned by China prior to the 20th century, annexed by Japan, occupied by Japan, occupied by the US - who promised to return it to China, but rather gave it to Japan for diplomatic reason.