This is the quintessential distinction between basically "left wing" and "right wing"
Left wing believes everyone are equal, and as such when someone is mistreated it is considered a crime and reaction to it is anger
Right wing believes people are divided into levels, as such when someone is mistreated they deserves it and its used to justify mistreating those below you.
India, Japan, Israel and Anglo nations are right wing cultures, Russia and China are left wing cultures, and rest of the world are in between.
It also means when left wing nations show mercy, as China did with India, US or Japan, or Russia with Europeans, the response is invariably it being used as justification to continue their past behaviour, because in their eyes only the weak show mercy.