China saw the overthrow of the USSR, and I read a few years back that Chinese universities offer a whole master's program in that subject too. They learned from it, and I think it's no coincidence that reform and opening up happened around the time the USSR was overthrown too (I'd wager to say Deng must have even directly wrote about it but it would be conjecture on my part).

The end of the USSR had two repercussions, one inside and one outside. It destroyed the country inside, but, it destroyed the communist movement outside. The Union was a huge supporter of communist movements and parties. Tons of parties in Europe received funding from the USSR, it's how they were able to afford buildings and stuff. When the union fell, all these parties either dissolved and integrated into social democrat parties, or turned to eurocommunism because the funding dried up, and they had not built a system in which they could depend only on themselves.

This is what China is trying to avoid. It's also not catering to our privileged first world lifestyle. China prefers to rally the imperialized periphery and they understand that very well, because BRI is pretty much only helping the Global South. By that I mean they know which part of the world is imperialized and which part is doing the imperialism. So in that way it's not incorrect to say China has a policy of non-interference if we think of it militarily (and I also use the term myself), but in another way they're also interfering, right? They're interfering in imperialist plans for Africa and South America. It's a "softer" form of interference (but with the same results) that the US knows how to do very well with the NED, CIA and USAID.

We could say yes, but they should be more open about it. But I think their system works very well and we can see that because every year it's growing. More countries are turning to China willingly, and it's exactly because they don't tell the world what to do. They don't presume to know the local material conditions better than those on the ground. African countries are now moving towards China precisely because they don't impose debt-trap loans and don't ask for concessions in return.

Regarding Rojava they have an ally, the US military lol. It is my understanding that Kurds were doing pretty well in Syria under Assad. Certainly much better than they're gonna do under ISIS. They chose to secede instead of joining forces with Assad, and this move weakened the resistance. Now they steal Syrian oil to sell to the US. Liberation doesn't necessarily mean sovereignty, it means autonomy. Living in dignity. Uyghurs have autonomy in the PRC. Rojava chose instead to do ethnic cleansing - they're not after liberation, they're after being the oppressors. Explains why they allowed the US military so easily.