@sinophilia bro for us here in the developing world ,China provide us a breathe of fresh air, now I respect your concern since you live in one of those 5 eyes countries, but for us China peaceful rise and its adherence to non interference is a blessing. We had enough of US hegemony and don't want an addition bully in our neighborhood.
Oh I certainly never imagine that China would bully other countries. Any bases would be done at the express approval and consent of those countries, and would only be for threatening the Anglo shitstains and only the Anglos shitstains. They are really out to annihilate any non-White people which want to have their own separate civilization.
The only reason they even let decolonization happen is because they thought 'oh those subhuman mud people will never amount to anything', but if they know some countries might rise to become powerful they would be in Hong Kong still in 2021 for the sake of "freedom".
Thank god mainland China got lucky and got its last cities back in the 90s. If it took just another decade the European powers would have annexed them into their own countries after realizing China could actually be powerful.