As an ancient revived Oriental power, China is very mysterious to the west. It is just like Marco Polo's description after coming to China which shows that gold and silver are everywhere in China. Westerners read his travel notes and just think that China is very rich, but how rich it is only depends on imagination. The West's view of China now includes both real evaluation and imagination.
mainly explained in the above paragraph?
There is still a deviation between Westerners' understanding of the Chinese people and Chinese reality.