All generalisations are false except insofar as they are true, and the following is a paradigmatic example: the Chinese dislike uncertainty, which is why they are not as keen on democracy as the west would like. The Chinese are entrepreneurial (another generalisation) and apply themselves to business with energy. Business likes stability and predictability, which the Party leadership provides from their fastness in Zhongnanhai, that part of the Forbidden City occupied by the gerontocrats.
Democracy, per contra, is a system of uncertainties, with changes in government every few years, and unexpected whims by electorates that throw everything into a melting pot. Two startling instances of this are currently occurring in the United States and the UK (and by extension, the European Union): in the former, the Donald Trump phenomenon, and in the latter the referendum on Britain’s EU membership. Each is the outcome of sharp kinds of political partisanship, stimulated by the ochlocratic forms of democracy which unsettled times produce.