Because the Chinese are too kind. All Korean ignorance and arrogance need to be deleted.
The Kennedy family never stopped complaining they are looked down upon by the Astors and Vanderbilts. No respect for crooks.
The Arabs have been super rich for decades now but what soft influence do they have on the world stage other than gold-plated everything?
China is nouveau riche by any standard earning USD$30 per day. What new and exciting 'Chinese' thing do you think the world should embrace today? I can't think of many. All good things take time to do. Take cuisine, it takes a couple hundred years of continued prosperity to nurture. You need a lot of rich middle class people to have spare money and leisure time to eat out for several generations. Pax Britannica was too short. What is American cuisine?
Soft influences are generational changes. People over 40 are set in their ways. In China's case, the changes happening today are already very encouraging. The number of countries teaching Chinese in elementary schools and in areas like e-sport, and phone apps. When East Asians travel abroad, locals stopped asking "Are you Japanese?". I never knew the days when Made In Japan meant cheap or bad products nor Sony started out making disposable transistor radios in the 1960's. I vaguely remember when Made in Taiwan had that reputation. Now it is China's turn so give it another 20 years. Perception works on 30-year cycles. American kids born in the 21st Century have a completely different world view than the Baby Boomers (like Biden or Trump). When the Millennials become decision makers, that is when acceptance of China as first among equals is the expected norm and non-controversial. Our burnt-in biases are impossible to change thus to rationalize China's rise, it must be due to America's help and through stealing IPR.
Similarly, it is only in the 2020's that China started to attract and able to retain top academics/professionals/creative talents including foreign ones to live and work within China. It is much harder to convince people in the 30's or older to move as once family is established, one's mobility is greatly diminished so we have to wait 20 years to see what these young people can produce and spread to the rest of the world. Concrete bridges and metro lines can be accelerated with money but not with people and therefore soft influences. Just look at the K-Pop and K-TV scene today and how long it took Korea? When China's GDP per capita reaches $35K, the same will happen then. Until then, fool-hardy to expect much. Soft influence/changes (like de-dollarization) must be gradual to avoid unnecessary chaos. None of us are compelled or in a rush to try out and adopt new things.
All this blurb is trying to say is that you can take the CCP slogan about 2049 literally. When you work out the math, however you approach the problem set, all point to that same time period 2049 (30 years) when major shifts are clearly visible from today. How will average Chinese people live and relax in 2049? Look at Taiwan today.
