I've been very busy these days but I was observing something about Chinese people. Lee Kuan Yew and Xi Jinping believed that (at least for now) Chinese people needed strict laws to monitor them.
That's because too often, in the process of 争权夺利, which Chinese people love doing too often, they often fall victim to petty, small-minded 狡猾ness. They don't see the big picture and try shady ways to become rich or powerful. 狡猾 can be used to describe the behavior of a lot of these people, and they don't realize in the game of game theory, what they're doing is 以偏概全的世界观点。
It's natural for humans to seek power, but sometimes the way Chinese people do it can be quite comical and I think they're definitely self-aware of it and you see it in Chinese style comedy or parody, but the problem is still pretty endemic in Chinese psyche.
But one thing I noticed is that Chinese people who have been to the United States shed this provinciality really quickly and become very good at seeing the big picture.
After you see the shitshow that is USA, you realize that Chinese people love complaining too much about their own country or city or village, but such complaints are actually extreme and not deserved. 外面的月亮更加圆 style thinking.
I would say this is endemic to Chinese because you don't see Koreans or Japanese grovelling or complaining about their own country in the same, disatisfied and bemused way. I mean that Koreans and Japanese simply resign themselves to their fate (which might not be a good thing) but Chinese love despairing about how badly things are going. Even rich, successful Chinese people I observe also has this existential despair which is really interesting. Lol.
If you interact with Koreans and Japanese regularly you would realize they do not bother leaving room for existential despair in their brains.
