It's more the result of entitlement a common psychology recognizable by its outward manifestation of fear and loathing. This brings to mind something I read a very long time ago. It was an article about how Japan+China+Korea could create a modern-day East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. China & Korea would provide cheap labour and natural resources while Japan would provide capital, industry and R&D. It seemed like a good economic fit considering the comparative advantages at that time and every leading thinker agreed with it. Today, however this sort of proposal is absolutely laughable. South Korea is a technological society nearly on par with Japan and China is now a modern industrialized country with a $1.5+ trillion USD$ annual budget attaining scary levels of development every single year. The point is, it took a long time AFTER first Japan and then Korea to dispel these attitudes of entitlement by the elites of the day. For China, this process will take even longer because of the ingrained feelings of superiority that many have over so-called Communism and sometimes latent racism. In a very real way, this is in many ways to the benefit of China...at least for now.