Some believe that the Chinese community's interest being underrepresented at the level of core development is much due to the fact that as a whole they have been myopically focusing on making money and not paying enough attention to protocol maintenance. As a result, they have almost no say and are little more than merely audience.
Please elaborate on what you mean by "the Chinese community's interest."
The three things I've heard about China-specific BTC interests relate to verification, bandwidth, propagation, and GFC latency issues.
- 20MB Gavinblocks are too big/slow for Chinese miners (and were vetoed by f2pool, etc.)
- 8MB XT blocks are lucky, because of some pun or superstition
- SPV mining was being done in unsafe/invalid ways by some Chinese miners, resulting in slightly more chaos and drama than usual
Other than geography and government related connectivity issues, I don't understand how a neutral protocol like Bitcoin would have any kind of nation-specific interests.
I also don't understand how you can arrive at general conclusions about a group so large, and thus full of conflicting and competing opinions and interests, as the Chinese Bitcoin community (which must number in the thousands or millions).
Are you doing the same thing as some big-blockers here in the west, which is to presume to speak for the majority even though no vote has been taken?