The thing about Jack London's sentiment, is this it is shared down through generations amongst the western consciousness. China by existing proves the lie of white supremacy and therefore western egos are bruised and their behaviour is akin to a school shooter being rejected by Becky. Rather than using the rejection to take an honest assessment of himself and improve himself accordingly, as the Chinese nation did and continues to do, the western supremacist would rather resort to violence and death and accepts and supports political leaders who push for war and death. This is where you have an armchair general in america who wants to 'sit on a throne of chinese skulls' for the apparent offence of surpassing america.
The only answer to this 'all of society' response is to deprive the anglo five eyes of their currently held territories, and to those who insist on sitting on thrones of chinese skulls, to have their own skulls polished and turned into drinking cups.