> Also, China doesn't invade countries half around the world and bring them to utter destruction and misery for generations to come, killing thousands to millions of civilians and creating breeding grounds for things like ISIS. They do their own thing, quietly and patiently, with laser focus and for outsiders its at most 'not great not terrible' category.

Here are a list of things that definitely don't fall under 'not great not terrible' category:

Great Leap Forward - estimated 15 million to 55 million people death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Deaths_by_f...

One-child policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_child_policy

Tiananmen Square protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

People's Republic of China annexation of Tibet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...

Support of Khmer Rouge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Number_of_deaths

Uyghurs in China - est. ≥1 million detained

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...

Leaders of countries which want to do business with China, most countries in the world, have to talk only very quietly about these "sensitive issues", or better not mention them at all.