Particularly with the trend towards globalization, China faces the problem of how not to be left behind by the West, while at the same time the Western culture with which China identifies is in crisis. These factors tend to reinforce the nationalistic element of the May Fourth tradition.
特別在全球化趨勢下，中國面臨如何不被甩在西方之後的問題，而中國認同的西方文化又出了危機，都讓五四民族主義的傳統很容易被強化。