Don't make this into some Occidental v Orientalist thing. The KMT Taiwanese hold onto original Chinese culture quite well without all your CCP Big Brother totalitarianism. If anything, Chairman Mao and CCP did away with a lot of Chinese cultural values.
China is a world power. It cannot (and will not) behave like a relatively small country like Germany, Korea or Japan and therefore, one cannot expect China to be loved worldwide like Japan or Korea.
But at least, China does not say its governance system is good for every country and does not force any country to accept its system. This is clearly different to the West patronizing behavior.