it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise that so many young Americans went off to China to work in recent years.
For they have seen first-hand why China cannot be trusted to control or influence international institutions, culture, social life, etc. They left college with the rose-colored notion that Africans, Asians, Whites, Hispanics, et al. could all share power harmoniously. But now they see why it's a mistake to deal with the Chinese as partners on an equal footing with ourselves.
Sure, many older Americans can understand that concept in the abstract, but it's generally the younger generation ("millennials") that has actually lived in Chinese neighborhoods, worked alongside Chinese citizens (as opposed to ethnic Chinese who have naturalized as U.S. citizens), and done their shopping in Chinese supermarkets.