China was a once a cute panda, but grew up to become a big panda.
You are dreaming awake. China has never been, but it has been humiliated and crippled for a century. What you call a cute panda is certainly a China in state of dormance, which we awakened ourselves against what common sense told us to.
China says it's a friend and keeps it's gun in sight, full of insecurity. Of course everything will be fine in the world if we all get along with China, and live in their manufactured houses. Everyone will have a wonderful bubble of protection over our heads and no bad words will be allowed. If it doesn't set the world off balance because of one perfect political agenda.
Just like the US, so what? Once again, you dislike it because chinese ideology differs and frontally fight with the one of your country. Thus, what you want here is only the US to keep its hegemony and countries to submit to you, but your country is falling and new powers are emerging to replace it.
China has it's muscles to show now for it's government and military leaders.
Once again, that can be applied to the US as well, or any power that has the ability to do so. I don't know why you are acting like a frightened virgin over this... The world has worked this way for a while. The US does it, Russia does it, France did and still does it to a lesser extent, UK did it, Japan did it, the Aztecs, Greeks, Romans, Khmers, Vietnameses did it too. Nothing new under the Sun.