In the tradition of Zheng He, modern China continues to do business progressively across continents around the world.
The only dark taint in its recent history was that with Chairman Mao, who was a Jesuit puppet just like Hitler and Stalin, responsible for the deaths of between 40 to 70 million of his own people.
While Western taxpayers are apathetically funding the destruction of Middle East countries and elsewhere, China has put all its efforts in expanding its influence via soft power over countries it has dealt with hundreds of years ago.