I wrote a book about this back in 2015, and I talked about my darkening view of China. I said that I thought that up until about 2009 China was still using the rhetoric of international co-operation and collaboration. With the economic crisis and its success in getting through it, we saw a more assertive China, but that was stepped up radically with the arrival of Xi Jinping. We have seen China in places around the world, in the South China Sea and in India, and interfering in most western countries in a way that is unprecedented. This has ramped up in the last five years.
On December 7th, 2020. See this statement in context.