If you don't think China engages in imperialism then you know nothing about Myanmar

Myanmar has basically no industrial infrastructure because they were a neglected colony of the British Empire. England only conquered Myanmar as a power check to French Indochina...>

The British invested almost nothing in Myanmar, such that to this day (thanks also to decades of corrupt and inept dictatorship) the country is still playing catch-up on very basic modern infrastructure...>

To give you an idea, most internet access when I was working there was through SIM cards and portable hot spots since there just weren't lines run there at all. The hotel I stayed in at a beach town only had portable gasoline generator electricity about 6 hours per day. In 2017.

There is a major skill/education gap in Myanmar. There are very few factories or technological capacity. There are a lot of precious Jade and other types of mines and lots of agriculture.

Chinese companies run the mines and export raw materials/agricultural products to China, process and refine into jewelry and processed food, then re-import back into Myanmar. This is the textbook old school definition of imperialism Lenin described.

Most instances of imperialism these days are much more sophisticated and concealed through intricate layerings and shell games, but Chinese imperialism of Myanmar couldn't be more transparently exploitative.