Regarding Chinese history.
All china does is fight itself
Then the nationalist fought the japanese.
Then the communisit beat the nationalist (who fucked off to taiwan)
Then you had Mao fucking shit up.
Why does communisim fail? Because its a system that fundamentally prevents who from knowing what anything is worth. Thats why the USSR fell apart in 1990s.
Mao had his vision for things including giving ad to african countires and the CCP kept that program and it lead to a fucking riot because "Niggers"
The chinese fucking speed ran industrialization devolped their industrial base in a fucking generation and well all the cheap money that followed into china is fucking going other places like vietnam.
They dont have an army that can do shit, and unlike other powers got a lesson in that when they fought vietnam.
My take on china, is that its truly facist the industry exisits to serve the state, and the state only lossened their grip in the 1980s to have a fucking jobs program. Xi got in charge and it was a return to strong man rule.