The western sense of morality didn’t stop the admissions scandals to all top western universities like Harvard Stanford and so on.

Chinese universities as far as I know don’t have things like institutionalized legacy admissions.

I’d like people to reconsider the view that western societies are somehow inherently purer or less corrupt. Often it takes different forms.

This can be seen in the way sanctions are imposed for companies using slave labor in Xinjiang but there is not nearly as much reflection on the vast amounts of prison labor in the US mostly of people unjustly given heavy sentences. In fact the number of people in American prisons rivals the number of people in Soviet gulags. Yet there is no shortage of sanctimony or moral rectitude.

Anything wrong with western society is an unfortunate flaw in an otherwise just system but anything wrong outside the west is a civilizational failing that can only be fixed by adopting some theoretical enlightenment values which the west itself struggles to practice without hypocrisy.

We can criticize others and ourselves without essentializing or casting ourselves as inherently moral.