I feel China wants to make the 21rst century the China century where Chinese power is projected around the world like Americas was in the 20th and Great Britains was in the 19th.
No real changes for me in the past decade. I’d love for the U.S. to be friends with the Chinese people, and to be widely seen as such over there, but as long as their government is an oppressive semi-Communist oligarchical one-party state that goes out of its way to deny individual liberties, make unwarranted territorial claims in the region, oppress religious minorities, practice industrial espionage, do little to protect the environment and wage aggressive if not hostile trade policy, I’m not feeling too chummy towards the PRC.
And I still remember the Tiananmen Square massacre and its aftermath very well.