Although the Chinese have been beneficiaries of an open international economic order, they could end up undermining it simply because, as an autocratic society, their priority is to preserve the state's control of wealth and the power that it brings.
Indeed, the restructuring of the chaebol has slowed down recently, partly because their autocratic chairmen cannot raise much more capital on the booming stockmarket without endangering the control of their empires, which they are loth to do.