What my personal experience has been, is that Chinese (and other Asians, with proportions varying in different regions) began to genuinely look down on the west starting around 2016, when Trump was elected.
Post Covid, even more so as the clusterf*ck of the western Covid response (which you could say was a direct product of western political and social culture), reduced western populations to a real life version of the crying seething man meme.
On a personal interaction level, there is always politeness but no longer any reverence when dealing with white foreigners; the sense is they've got no real advantage or 'substance' behind what they try to market themselves as.
What was adopted was modern techniques and systems. Culturally there is very little cross contamination; there is superficial 'adoption' more for marketing purposes (e.g. Christmas), whereas at the core what you have are the pre-existing attitudes and expectations (e.g. work ethic, personal agency in controlling your own fortunes, etc.) married with modern techniques, systems and institutions.
That was the reason East Asian countries were able to rise so rapidly compared to other nations (including western countries).
Just an observation on western work culture - there seems to be a hangover from feudal society, resulting in the "I do the bare minimum / I refuse to give 110%, because it benefits my boss, not me" attitude.
Whereas Asian work culture emphasises your own control over your own future (if I give 110%, and reinvest the earnings / learnings, I'll get ahead of the others).
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