This is projected sometimes as bringing "glory" to china but in the end it's still all about furthering one's own agenda.

I heard that so many times in China. Foreigners bad, Chinese always good, never wrong, never to be questioned.

The other problem with the confucian system is it promotes stubborn, unquestioning, hive mind, herd mentality. Noone will dare stand out or speak up.

To point out a flaw in their logic, is to bring up whenever a tibetan or uighur (who coming from buddhist/islamic backgrounds) achieve something, are they bringing glory to China? Or do the Han see the tibetans/uighurs as confucianized and han-icized to the extent that they are under the confucian system, albeit minorities?

Most uighurs I spoke to certainly don't believe in anything remotely similar to what han chinese believe in!