Chinese culture is so different from our own tbf. I was talking to a Chinese guy I'm friendly with a while back and asked him why he thought Chinese men were so much more patriotic than Western men - it's something I've always wondered but felt it a bit rude to ask (and I also wondered if it was actually more fear based compliance rather than true patriotism).
He said that many Chinese people value stability and that it's often less about 'Tories vs Labour' type sentiments so much as a meritocracy where leaders are chosen for their demonstrative capabilities rather than their manifestos. He said that many people view the West as unstable and almost fickle in nature rather than being unified, and that this is often to our detriment as we're weaker divided.
He did also say that a not insignificant minority of young men reject the traditional culture - there's a well known phrase for that subculture which I forget. Also that the Chinese haven't forgotten the 'century of humiliation' where foreign countries walked all over them. As such, many prioritise a strong independent nation and dislike the thought of a 'weak' government.
Not sure I'd want to live under a Chinese style government, but I can totally see why other countries might look at the UK and think that our issues are in part caused by weak leadership. I mean, our country really isn't in a great place atm and we can't even control our borders. And the government's response to widespread public concern about immigration is to refuse to release the data.
And then there are so many people apologising for the British Empire, seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that the countries they think we should apologise to are far worse than we've ever been in terms of human rights/slavery etc. I can see how other cultures regard as us weak.