If I may, I have come to think that for many nations, including China, most of the 'anti-West' attitude is cultural in a broader sense--but in a way that pertains to the article. I think the source of that attitude is the pop culture-marketing complex that dominates life in the 'West' as part and parcel of 'consumer society'--most especially in the U.S. In a word, it represents the 'decadence' of the 'West'.

Some, like Islamists, are repulsed by that complex's unrelentingly salacious content. In all cases, the powers that be do recognize the power it contains.

While it drives consumerism, that complex is an omniscient, unceasing stream of culturally infused propaganda. Those in power in nations outside the 'West' therefore try their best either to bar it altogether or at least to keep it small enough that they can control it/exert more cultural influence than it can so as to prevent its posing a political challenge.

Yet, consumerism is what drives the U.S. economy. So the problem for any would-be consumer-based economy is how to have a strong economy without a big, strong pop culture-marketing complex.

[For the record, in the U.S. that complex has been promoting (since the 1960's, anyway) a culturally liberal agenda with which I agree--though I totally loathe consumerism itself.]