Many of them want to study in the US one day, but most believe America knows little of China and cares even less. Sometimes we admire Americans and sometimes we think they are just bullies. These Chinese attitudes are not only understandable, they are correct. Without a doubt, Americans know little of China, and care even less. The American role as a global supercop, after all, is nearly an article of religious faith among some American politicians, as it is at the War Street Journal.
Many countries have difficulty coming to grips with the evolving system of international relations.
The history of the Balkans in the 1990s was one of countries trying to suppress the right of ethnic groups to determine their futures, even if it meant breaking up sovereign states. But China is the only major power uncomfortable with the overall system of multilateralism to which much of the rest of the world subscribes. The Journal only gets it half right. No, the U.S. acts to suit its own ends because that is what sovereign states do. The U.S. has only chosen to cloak its self-interest in the language of humanitarianism because the U.S. has found that this will enable it to do as it pleases.