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A great power can only be the most dominant cultural power. Culture is the biggest way to earn respect, admiration and followership
China was the dominant culture in East Asia before, and people automatically took China's lead in that part of the world. Similarly for India, who was dominant in South Asia.
Consider US. It is by far the largest cultural exporter. This makes people comfortable with your power and a natural leader, a reason US has so many allies, and so many countries are more than willing to take US lead.
Just to be frank, on a per capita basis, Korea and Japan are way ahead of China in sports.
Sure that's why everybody wanted to join AIIB despite US telling them not to. To be frank nobody looks at per capita basis when talking about sports. These two countries at least get some medals unlike your shitty country with > 1 bln people and still rank as one of the lowest in the Olympic event.