Ye Lo ... a new Maxwaber,,, or May be Chinese Marx..
Even a pack of Dogs can function with very high organizational capability but that is not called Dog Civilisation....
Civilization is the process by which a society reaches an advanced stage of social and cultural development and organization. It is a stage of social development that also includes morals and ethics .. which you are trying to dismiss.. culture is a very essential component of civilization and what Chinese are exhibiting is a primitive savage hunter-gatherer behaviour, way to warfare and morality ... The foundations of civilisation is not the ability to work together but the ability to remain together with higher human values... and with an order ....
Practically every other "world power" out there does the most wicked and evil stuff imaginable to their enemies, yet they are called "civilizations".
People call Anglos a civilization, and i don't need to mention what they did to this country and other countries.
The Arab Caliphate is also a civilization, and it is well known what was done to the kaffirs they conquered who were unwilling to convert.
Perhaps some JNU "scholar" would even call the Delhi Sultanates a civilization.
meanwhile you could have some grass skirt wearing tribe in the Amazon, or Africa etc, they behave the same way as the British Empire or the arab caliphate, but they are yet still savages, because you know, grass skirts, mud huts, stone weapons and all.
Morals when dealing with the aliens who are out to kill you, savage your women and grab your land are pointless, all that matters are the more "empirical" things, industry, administration, economy, agriculture, logistics what have you.
We didn't contain the paki problem because of "Dharmic morals" we contained them because of actions like responding with a surgical strike and bombing that madarsa in Balakot, removing Art 370 and defanging the jaichand politicians like Omar , Mufti etc while getting that state under total central control.
Today the Pakistani government cries to UN abbu, US abbu and his new found Turki bhaijaan about Kashmir, all while their jihadis infiltrated into Kashmir are shot like dogs.
Half the people who give the good guy and morals spin are left liberals fools, even if they are not the secular variety.
My morality is a meme maxim is when fools apply morals to a Bharat vs alien races/jihadis/ assorted jaichands conflict, not to morals applied within Indian society and our people.