I've pointed out that 2 countries that lost one war took totally different approaches to their misdeeds and ended up with very different relationships with their neighbors. No blathering about moral status somehow being independent will change the simple fact that Germany's efforts to make sure its actions were never repeated led to trust and Japan's efforts to whitewash and glorify what it did remains a source of distrust and friction between Japan and many of its neighbors.
Your response was to claim China was somehow unworthy and undeserving of getting the same treatment from Japan than Germany gave to European countries. That sounds like xenophobic BS to me.
Your attempt to compare claims of ownership of a few disputed sandbars to what Japan undisputedly did to large numbers of humans is sad.
Yes, China lost the opium wars. The reason doesn't matter. The lack of even a polite acknowledgement contributes to Chinese distrust of western powers, which is simple and logical. If you think calling China pragmatic for dealing with countries that performed acts that violate their own self-proclaimed moral superiority is BS, would you prefer China instead decide to not deal with untrustworthy countries? Your claim of confusing personal vs national is also BS. Nations are run by people and those people remember abuse of their nations just as easily as they remember personal abuse. You certainly have no trouble remembering all your complaints about China.
You seem to think that China is somehow not entitled to point out hypocrisy of other nations that frequently criticize China. The Soviets weren't like the west either. They just never held back on criticizing obvious hypocrisy when the US or one of its allies did something blatantly against western claims of being unshakable bastions of freedom, democracy, and human rights. Now that China has finally fired back in the "Slap Other Countries via Twitter War" and pointed out very bad things done by Australia and the US, you've gone for a gold medal in mental gymnastics to try to somehow prove that China's government somehow isn't permitted to make such comments and that any such comments should be ignored without regards to the facts of the issue. In the end, all of your BS arguments boil down to nothing more logical than "Not like us!"
Your personal opinion of the China and its government won't magically render facts pointed out by the government void no matter how many bizarre reasons you come up with. If China decides to point out that on December 16, 2020, the US was one of only 2 countries in the world to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution for Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, that the UK, the EU countries, Canada, and Australia were among the 51 countries that abstained, and that 130 countries (including China) voted in favor, those votes are just as much inarguable facts as they would be if Scott Morrison held a press conference on the subject.
How can you believe the US is a country that any nation should trust if its police regularly abuse and murder a disadvantaged minority? International rules on human rights as well as the US Constitution (plus federal and state laws) make it very plain that this is wrong. How can you complaint about any other country not having an exact copy of rights laws the US, UK, Australia, and more decide can be ignored at will? How can you still claim that only your favored countries are allowed to point out facts about other countries? Oh, that's right. You'll just dredge up some new claim about why Calech-favored-nations have special privileges because of "historical practice" or some equally undefinable BS to try to justify your "Not like us!" views.
Ignoring Calech-World for the moment, I've been observing the hatred of China in other places. Some of it is people who miss the cold war and desperately want a new one. For many politicians, the demonizing of China (or the "I'm not really a racist, just substitute "CCP" for "China" and "Chinese people" in all the hateful things I've already said." subset of politicians) is a standard ploy. Find something different (Not like us!), look for flaws (every country has some), treat all negative rumors as facts, and magnify it all into a giant threat to your very way of life. This is an easy way to unite the voters into voting for whoever promises to protect them from the scariest stories.
Then there are the people who try to denigrate every accomplishment of China. If China builds a bridge, the instant response of these types is either "It will collapse" or even "I hope it collapses and kills a lot of people." Some just never noticed that if you want to buy low quality products at cut rate prices, China will still sell those to you just as fast as China will sell you better products at a higher price. Many people had a similar attitude towards Japanese cars as cheap and easily broken in the 1970's, but even a relative of mine who participated in fighting the Japanese had to (VERY!) grudgingly admit that a 1980 Toyota was an extremely good car for the money, but not everyone caught onto Japanese car quality as fast as he did.
Those that have finally realized that although China is not the leader in a number of areas, but that it does lead in others and is catching up in many, have another worry. The British Empire was the most powerful force on Earth, both economically and militarily for a long time. Sitting on top for a long time usually leads to laziness. If it didn't, we'd all be under the Roman Empire or else the Mongols would have taken the the whole world. The US has been #1 since 1945 and has been unrivaled since the fall of the Soviet Union. A perfect example of US laziness is summed up in one simple question "If the US can put a man on the Moon, why can't the US put a man on the Moon?" Yes, it was a great accomplishment, but then the technology itself was thrown away.
Now, something different has arisen to rival. Unlike highly expansionist empires, China doesn't build a vast military and try to encircle the world with colonies and military bases. Although officially communist, China has shown economic expansion at a rate and duration never before seen and has been passing the US in more and more ways. From the western perspective, denial was the first reaction, but now major investors take market positions based on Chinese economic numbers, not in spite of them. For those who've moved past denial, the concept of the US actually falling to the second largest economy in the world is very hard to accept, but this is where laziness comes in.
The launch of Sputnik lead to a nationwide push in science and engineering that enabled the US to win the Moon Race as well as to have technological developments that led to more economic growth, thus enabling it to bankrupt the Soviets in the arms race. The problem is that it's just so much easier to keep saying "But we went to the Moon over 50 years ago and we're still number 1" and finding ways to complain about China and to try to slow Chinese development than to step up and kick start science, technology, and the economy again.
In a way, it's sad. Imagine where the US (and the world) technological level would be today if the US had never felt even modestly rivaled by the Soviet Union. If the US was smart, instead of clamoring for war (or denying that some "Not Like Us!" system could really work), it could be actively pushing science, technology, and the economy in a determined (but peaceful) competition with China. In the end, this would benefit the whole world. Instead, America seems intent on letting a few crazy billionaires decide which areas the country will remain competitive in while the rest of the economy falls into stagnation.
Either way, the Chinese economic, scientific, and technological progress will continue no matter what many in the west wish would happen. To get back to the original title of this thread, China's endgame is further progress no matter what any other country decides to do.