We know what the problem is.
It is their whole thinking.
They make it out like some lawyer argument.
Well guess what? The rest of the world outside of Merica does not run on lawyer arguments. Science, engineering, social cohesion, economic stability and growth. That is how other countries aspire to run their affairs.
All these arguments pushing values, have no currency outside of the Western political circles, who tend to be all lawyers.
In reality, like who even cares what these people have to say.
Bottom line, the past few decades China was able to rise on all fronts, and development of it external relations were all based on the win-win and offering better deals.
These Western political circles do not even realize that they spent the past few decades doing exactly what they are saying they are going to do in the future. It still has not registered in their minds that it will not work. Others have moved on.