Right, that's why the greater the cultural interchange the more the egalitarianism should take root there.
Western culture is very attractive to the east, as we've seen... I feel no white guilt about the exporting of those very noble values that you are talking about.
To bring this about, the west has to use, for want of a better term, stealth. There's a fragile balance between the civilian leadership and the Military in China... we don't want to make the military nervous... that would set things back by DECADES.