Actually I think there may be an underlying mindset of viewing attempts to "immanentize the eschaton" (or basically improving the human condition to utopia or heaven on Earth) as basically wrong and hopeless since by the monotheistic religions such perfection is the sole province of God. Attempting to create heaven on Earth therefore is seen as arrogant and doomed to fail, so they give up or don't even try, and just "get by". That is just one reason why they vilify communism because they view it as just such an attempt and point to the failure of the Soviet Union as an example of why such attempts in the future are also doomed to fail.
We see examples of such a mindset from the likes of "Mother Teresa" who despite acts of apparent charity towards the poor, did not help alleviate the underlying conditions that generated and perpetuated poverty. She viewed the suffering as a necessary and unavoidable aspect of the human condition. The acts of charity were effectively a form of personal virtue signaling rather than changing the long term situation for the poor.
Such is completely contrary to the humanist viewpoint of China throughout much of history. From even the pre-Imperial period, philosophers and rulers have understood that alleviating the suffering of the common people and winning their support was the critical element that would enable them to achieve victory over their enemies and more importantly hold on to the Mandate of Heaven, and the fall of the dynasties that pushed the people too hard has only hammered that lesson home. Even though each dynasty in time became corrupt and fell, they all at least paid lip service to the idea of serving the people, rather than just throwing up their hands and leaving it all up to God or Heaven. "Heaven sees as the people see; Heaven hears as the people do" is one of the earliest expressions of the will of the people and the consent of the governed as the basis on which any government rules.
So others cannot seem to believe it and have always existed in an uneasy tension with their own governments because they fundamentally do not believe in the possibility of human government and civilization radically improving the human condition.
