&gt; History has taught us China doesnt really abide by the common laws of society.

*Kind of*. 

History has taught us China will passionately *only* abide by the Chinese definition of the common laws of society, whatever those are, even when their culture sharply changes. 

With big, sweeping legal changes tending to correspond to sweeping cultural change. They kind of tried adopting Western-ish values *once*, but it kind of blew up badly for them. That might have been because the dude in charge was corrupt - but it still set a tone for China's legacy, in history.