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No, this is just untrue for both accounts.
The PRC and RF have largely been peaceful over the last few decades, the most notable exception being, of course, the Russo-Ukrainian War. On the other hand, the West has been on an extermination campaign of genocide in Palestine, destroyed Iraq, bombed Iran, destroyed Afghanistan, supported coups all over South America and Africa, and much, much more. If you extend beyond a few decadea you also can include the attempted genocide of Korea and Vietnam.
Not only is quality of life in the PRC higher than some EU states as well as US, the EU and US both enjoy the quality of life they do because of imperialism. That's like pointing to a landlord and saying they have a higher quality of life than their tenant, and using that as a point in favor of the landlord and against the tenant. Imperialism is the reason why the Global North consumes far more of production than it creates, and what drives the Global North to sanction, coup, invade, destroy, and genocide the Global South.
I extended beyond the last 2 decades, I just kept it to 2 decades initially because it's the most relevant for our discussion. The PRC has not "gone to war" with pretty much everyone around them, with the exception of Vietnam, in the last 50 years. They do not support terrorist groups, and they have not slaughtered millions of their own people. They do not strip their population of basic freedoms, the opposite is true, and they do not force Han supremacy, they have higher rates of minority representation than the west does. They are not imperialist, they do not use financial capital to dominate the global south and expropriate vast amounts of wealth, nor is Chinese culture "soulless."
Your whole comment is entirely uncited, and veers into being wildly racist by calling Chinese culture soulless.
As for quality of life, I didn't expect you to go fully mask-off and justify imperialism, but holy shit you just outright called it an "irrelevant excuse." If I point out that Elon Musk has a better quality of life than I do because of vast amounts of wealth stolen from the working class, that's somehow irrelevant and Elon is good in your eyes? This is monstrous behavior. Do some self-crit and see how the west plunders the global south.
Again, everything you listed is uncited, and your claims are racist in nature, like calling Chinese culture "soulless" because it's now socialist and Mao banned foot-binding. Yes, I do quite like the democracy graph, it shows that the PRC is ahead of the west in democracy. The PRC has done nowhere near the atrocities of the west. It doesn't imperialize, commit genocide, or otherwise plunder the world for its own benefit.
You have no sources because you're genuinely a fascist that defends western imperialism unironically.
Wars China has been in, in the last 50 years:
From your own link:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathu_La_and_Cho_La_clashes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_campaign_at_the_China%E2%80%93Burma_border
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chamdo
Some are outside the 50 year mark by a decade or two but it shows in the last 50 years theyve pretty much attacked every single country around them.
Then don't include them, you dishonest fuck.
You literally had to include things from outside the time period to pad the numbers and you still only got to five. Now do the US and EUs wars for the same time period.
I wish I lived in your world where time is non-linear.