China rise peacefully, can or cann't?

If you want to have an answer on the topic, you have to know some information about the origin of the Chinese as follows:

More than 600 years ago (China's early Ming Dynasty), Zheng He led the world's mightiest fleet, with 300 ships and as many as 30,000 troops under his command. As we all known, the whole Ming dynasty (1368-1664) of China was the most powerful in the world during that period.
From 1405 to 1433, Zheng's fleet made seven epic voyages, reaching south-east Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, developing mutual trade, exchanging culture and technologies, communicating traffic on the sea and promoting social and economic development in such countries and areas. Without doubt, his achievements were extraordinary and a marvel of the time.
 
In his book Science and Civilisation in China, the British PhD. Joseph Needham, praised the Chinese navigators' ability to disregard past animosities and exhibit through definitive action a non-threatening approach to other cultures. Although the Chinese contingents were well armed, Needham wrote, they did not attempt to conquer foreign peoples or establish military fortresses on foreign soil.

Everyone in China is very familiar with the great stories of Zheng's seven expeditions to the "Western" or Indian Ocean (郑和七下西洋). He is an envoy of China's peace and friendship and the symbol of China's 'peaceful rise'.

Great Chinese statesman Deng Xiaoping, said China would never seek hegemony at the Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly in 1974. In China, there is such a widely recognized consensus that peaceful development is a strategic choice of the Chinese government.

Which county among America, Britain, Russia, Japan, France and Germany has said they will never seek hegemony in their era of prosperity?

Has the second country in Nuclear Club declared that at no time and under no circumstances will it be the first to use nuclear weapons in addition to China?

Somebody said Mearsheime is sponsored by CIA in the comments of the video in Youtube. I guess so.

I would like to say his theory has some assumptions, three exceptions and bold conclusions, which maybe are not right. Such as:

• The most important assumption is China will definitely expand like American. But I knew China is still a paper tiger like he said, China has a lot of internal issues, which have not been solved. How could it expand?
• The most unacceptable thing is he regards every big country close to China as an enemy of China, include Russia. There was a guy questioned him in the video, but he insisted it, his answer was it would be changed. The following is quoted from his paper:
• “ Indeed, there is already considerable evidence that countries like India, Japan, and Russia, along with smaller powers like Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam, are worried about China’s ascendancy and are beginning to look for ways to contain it. ”

I admired his comprehensive and logic analysis on China, include a good description of Confucianism and nationalism, he did not miss any important thing.

The most interesting thing is this guy is welcome in China and was nominated as a honorary professor in an important university, China Renmin University. It seems China government and Chinese scholars recognize the containment from America and pay high attention to it.

At last, we are lucky that America’s decisions are not made by geopolitics scientists, otherwise China will have to “rise not peacefully” before being attacked by America.

By the way, a few most-views answers do not have real thoughtful contents, they are just with beautiful packing, which is a pitiful and common phenomenon in QUORA. After read so many answers, I recommend Holger Nahm's answer to Can China rise peacefully? A less-views but meaningful answer from a western lady.

Attach the link of his paper. Can China Rise Peacefully? I read it while being accompanied by a lot of beauties, joke!