They're playground bullies who will push you for no reason and then tattle on you when you push back.
It's an honorless system and they seem to be very proud of it.
Right now they're actively committing a genocide, blatantly spying on other countries, allying themselves with Russia, and stealing technology and intellectual property through a vast network of spies and intentionally deceptive practices.
China denies that the 1989 Tienanmen Square Massacre even happened even though there are photos of it.
But all of that aside, yes, they are massively, massively hypocritical.
I don't know why we give them airspace in our media. It's the same thing over and over again.
The Chinese government does something that in 1960 would have been considered an actionable declaration of war.
We tell them to stop it.
China whines and says we're a bunch of meany poo poo heads.
The Chinese government does something that in 1960 would have been considered an actionable declaration of war.