Who said anything about conquering the world through military force? The Russians love propaganda, as everyone basically knows now. They like to influence elections, violently crush their enemies (look at what they did to Estonia), and do anything they can short of getting hit back. The Chinese like to rip off everyone's R&D, using their military (particularly their cyber espionage forces) to actually make money. It's ridiculous. The Chinese are a bunch of backhanded motherfuckers. Of course, they are building islands in the South China Sea to expand their territory, buying up property all over the world, buying US debt and currency to stabilize their own economy, and trading development for oil and mining contracts all over the Middle East and Africa. The Chinese are quietly becoming the imperialists that American conspiracy theorists claim that we were, and by the time they're done, they won't need to fire a shot to take over the world. It's ridiculous.