Some Brits like @mike2000 would perhaps take that pride from the US, since he considers the US and the UK as one entity as both nations are Anglo-Saxon.
The Anglo-Saxons are some very arrogant folks, and they remain hostile towards Russia as they also consider Russia as the only non-Anglo-Saxon white people who can pose a challenge to their absolute hegemony.
In their eyes, they wouldn't tolerate anyone who poses a threat to their global hegemony, no matter you are white or not.
For now, they are going after China for some obvious reasons.
Although Obama is half-black, but he is the non-white token for the Anglo-Saxon world.
The point is this, Tiger, if Japan (over 70 years ago) could project such power and devastation to the West, and the United States, what more if China does the same in a war? China has greater land mass, a greater population, a larger industrial capacity than Japan. So, if we Japanese were able to humiliate the Dutch, the French, the British , and to an extent -- the Americans , then imagine what China can do when she is able to build her forces. Much more, definitely.
So , it is truly unwise to under-estimate East Asian fighting capability and strategy. The old European Powers dared to under-estimate Japan , thinking that we were harmless "Yellow Peril" in their newspapers. Lo and behold, their last great battles in Asia were resounding defeats to very people whom they considered much inferior than they. Never, ever under-estimate the enemy.