The Chinese people's character: they don't trust rules, but worship power, and fear power.

They are more accustomed to rule by man rather than by law; they know that the standards of rule by man are variable, aware of where rent-seeking opportunities exist, and know how to exploit these spaces.
This "ability" is not a skill possessed by a few, but a survival instinct widely ingrained through social conditioning.
They don't need to learn systems; they only need to learn people.
Systems are dead; people are alive; systems are written on paper; people hold the standards.
Whoever controls the standards is the true rule.
So they have no reverence for rules, only evaluation.
You can see how this system operates on an ordinary street:
If a few police cars pass by, people instinctively give way, not because of the rules, but because it represents untouchable power.
If a luxury car roars past, loud and at exaggerated speed, people watch and discuss, but don't truly make way; some drivers even deliberately cut in front, because that is just "money," not "power."
If it's a tricycle or an electric scooter, they will go against traffic, cut in line, change lanes at will, because they understand: rules don't constrain them; the cost is almost zero.
On the same road, three completely different behavioral logics, but behind them only one principle: those with costs follow rules; those without costs define the rules.
This is their basic understanding of the world.