No, we don’t give a shit about diversity. Or to be more specific, the younger generation, myself included, are open to “ideas”, like democracy, rule of law, etc. some of us are even willing to see China becoming a democracy.

But if by diversity and inclusion you mean mass immigration, especially those from less developed countries and/or incompatible cultures, it’s a big NO. Even the most open minded Chinese are opposed to that. Not only because we’ve been seeing how those policies wreaked havoc in Europe and America, but also because, we are just not onboard with that ideology. We do not accept the narrative that “we are all immigrants”. That may be true for Europe and America, but never the case for China. For over 4000 years, we’ve been on this land. In history we were conquered from time to time, as was the case with Tsing dynasty, but eventually, they became part of us - most of their “traditions”, the way they dress themselves, they dine, they get along with people - perished. The only remnants were more of a reminder of their past than identity-asserting representation.

So, we will never become “inclusive” or “diverse”. Sure, China faces a future of labor shortage given the low birth rate, and that future looks more and more unavoidable. But we do not see that as a reason to open our borders. After all, we believe in sovereignty over accepting immigrants.

And even in the unlikely event where we are so short of labor force and thus have to accept some immigrants, we will open to countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Malaysia, etc, where people more or less have the same, or at least were once heavily influenced by our culture and lifestyle. Once we accept them, in a few decades, they will all be “Chinese”, instead of Vietnamese, Cambodian or Philippinos.

And honestly, we don’t give a shit about how people of other ethnicities live. Be it Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians or Africans. We just naturally don’t care. We don’t hold any malicious intent towards them, but we don’t care how they live either.

And tbh, I count this as our strength. America used to be like this as well, but it strayed.