Men are judged by the power of their nations. Asian men will be respected when China which is not a western vassal becomes truly rich and powerful country and achieve dominance in its own region. By the same virtue, white men will probably lose their privillage in other countries the more powerful China becomes.
No, it's because a lot of that terrible K-Pop/starvation look (Not restricted to Korea of course, also popular in HK and somewhat in mainland)
Do those guys look powerful to you?
On top of this, there aren't a lot of well-known/mainstream current top male Chinese athletes (on the level of Shohei Othani, or Yao Ming in past)
Interesting, exactly on the day of the Chinese Embassy bombing in Belgrade 25 years ago.
(Xi's first European tour visit after 5 years, only Serbia, Hungary, and France going to be visited - quite telling).
When Russians hit the power grid, they are monsters, when NATO does it, they are peacekeepers.