As its military grows China really needs to ask for what purpose?

China Can Thrive in the Trump Era is an editorial crowing about China becoming a full fledged superpower as if that was a good end in itself.  As its military grows China really needs to ask for what purpose? Is it to bully its neighbors or to protect a harmonious trade zone in Southeast Asia that facilitates the high tech business and logistics that built its economy? If the region is to thrive under a Pax Chinoise then its purpose is to eliminate the inharmonious rather the create it.  Taking out the idiot kid next door playing with nuclear matchsticks would be an exertion of military might that might create regional economic harmony.  Ignoring the delinquent has South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan looking for arms from our Pentagon to protect themselves and counters China's military and which ratchets up tensions to a level of nuclear confrontation and inharmonious waste.