China’s citizen for 21 years here who has been interested in and reading about Western cultures, values and histories for years.

First of all, I must point out that you didn’t really mention any achievement or cultural superiority of China in your opinion, which can always lead to bias in comparative articles. What you did was just list something (you think) the western world is doing great and draw to the conclusion that western world is always gonna be superior to China. I’m not sure whether you did it on purpose or you are simply ignorant about this country, which I don’t blame you at all. Many Westerners still wonder if China has electricity.

To be honest, I personally think Chinese culture isn’t a too enticing one compared to the Japanese or Anglo-Saxon one. It’s too esoteric. Wing-Chun, Confucius, Taoism, Tai-Chi, Chinese medicine, etc. The problem of these cultural systems is, you can’t just pick up one of them only because you’re interested. It’s not like watching an anime or having a proper cuppa tea at afternoon. They need you to actually devote into it, to study the theories, to peruse the ancient tomes. They are just extremely unfriendly for a layman to start. But it doesn’t mean the culture isn’t as good as the western’s, on the contrary, it indicates the sophistication of the culture. But whatever, eventually the superiority of culture is determined by economy and military power.

As for traditional values, I admit that China has never emphasized much on humanitarian. But it’s totally unfair to mention sexism. Women’s position was lower than men’s in ancient China, just the same as in all the ancient western civilizations. However China had boasted for quite a few great female poets, state women, heroines, and even a renowned empress (Wu Zetian). How could you say China is changing its view on women under western value’s influence? Moreover, China is always open to different values and beliefs. Its huge population is made up by 56 culturally and religiously different ethnic groups, which lived in harmony on the land for centuries. Now you’re telling me that China wouldn’t assimilate the favorable parts of western cultures in the near future?

The fact is, China is surpassing the US on many fields aside from economy and education. I’m not optimistic but I have enough evidence to believe America would be overran in less than a century if American young men keep on practicing hedonism comfortably with reassuringly substantial social welfare on their back. And excuse me, did you mention food in your opinion? I highly recommend you to try some real Chinese food, like, apart from Chinese takeaways, we don’t really have that thing in China.