Tbh I think most of them are simply very extremist and have similar beliefs to the Japanese during the Meiji era. They want to emulate the west because they believe it will make themselves superior to anyone else. That may be due to an innately twisted nature. I mean, look at a lot of ww2 era Jap nationalists. They too looked like literal rats.
That's why their kind is near extinction now, because it is more and more clear that America is at disadvantage or at least at most only at equal in the ongoing all out struggle against China.
I do not think these people are true friends of the west. Rather, they only want to use western ideology as a front to achieve power. For most of them, their vision is one where under the guise of so-called "democracy", China will be become co-rulers of the world with the west. Should the west be unable to live up to their warped expectations, then they would turn against them as well. These ideas were only attractive back when it was believed China would be better off sharing power with the west.
