So you're saying the Confucianism is just a rationalization of a more pragmatic arrangement. The collectivistic culture that accounts also for Chinese communism is just an accident?

I think there are always multiple causes of complex social phenomena. As I say in the article, the emerging dictatorship in China helps explain the censorship too. I'm just emphasizing the more idealistic side of the East-West divide, to show that atheism itself has little to do with it.