There is also a lot of scare-mongering by the US, so a lot of these points are overrated and it is clearly scare-propaganda.

Just compare it with Isreal's infiltration into the government and media of the US. You don't see that in the news.. ;-)

Doesn't mean that China is a small player. The main problem is that a lot of US property is sold to China. If there were no protections, China would own most of the US. They also control a lot of politicians with their money. And I think there is some stealing of inventions. But a lot of the military technology, which is very similar, has been sold under the table. That is because the US is very corrupt. And I think that is one of the main problems.

I have not seen much of the information control that it says. I mainly see HK protests and how bad China is. Which is more related the current CIA operations. The plan is now to destabilize China, but that may also cost many HK protesters their lives.

Compared with the fights around Taiwan, North Korea, Tibet, the situation has been rather stable. Compared to Mao times, China has become more busy with commerce. They make Apple phones, Jeans and such. They have a lot of large industry, which improves their economy, but is very bad for their working conditions and environment. Note that they work together with the American Industry to make cheap "American" products.

Their actions on the international level are often in reaction to US interventionism, like the indirect support of Iran. But I also think that they want to expand a bit. Currently it is via support and economy. And because a lot of countries fear the US, this gives them a good opportunity. China can also not fully support itself, in the case of war. It misses certain resources, unlike the US. The same happened with Germany and Japan, who ran out of certain resources to sustain a running military.