Absolutely, the Chinese favour 'harmony', which usually means filling the pockets of the strongest dictator.

Their 'Belt and Road Initiative' is one frightening manifesto.

They buy up the land, usually a 99 year lease, build the airports and railroads and highways, even the ports, and control the pillage otherwise known as 'resource extraction'.

And the peasants?

As it is with all colonial misadventure, they get very little except another form of the lash.