@jik I do not intend to claim you are lack of more knowledge, in fact I am sure you read much more than most, and are a very intelligent individual..
With that being said, I'd suggest re-examine the socialist principles and hard facts of war and conflict in the past 80 years.
One example: however you were told about China, it did lift 800 million people out of poverty, drives global south development, and invaded nobody in the process.