More than anything else, America is the father of China's modern economy. After the opium wars, when China was forced to pay reparations to Western nations, America used its reparations money to give college scholarships to Chinese students. Then, although China now says that her economy no longer needs America, it is large imports from China and the transfer of American technology to China which created China's modern economy. Thus, in moving against America, China is being unfilial. America is now an old father and the young Chinese economy can do everything on its own now, but one doesn't harm one's old father once one is able to be independent.