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I want to say this with the caveat that I am generally a person who always contends with the contradictions of living in a capitalist-imperialist country and my own distaste for it. So this doesn't come from a place of American exceptionalism writ large, but I am a firm believer the we did get this part right:

Public lands and culture of the ability to access wild places, whether for hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, and just generally an affordance of access to wilderness that is codified into the laws of the country. In Europe they have the concept of "Right to Roam" which is a powerful concept that I appreciate (and in ways is superior to our systems for just walking in the woods) but it is also fundamentally different than the almost legalistic systems we have in this country towards public lands.

My surface understanding of China is that there is no such broad remit given to the people of China and there aren't designated places where the people of China can just go and exist in wilderness. Such places might exist by convention but they don't have the sort of legal framework that we have in America to recreate in these places.

They don't come close to the variety and quality of cosmopolitan dining you can get in major American cities. A lot of FOBish Chinese people I've met won't even venture too far outside of Chinese cuisine when going out to dinner.

Software. Music.

Universities

Liberal arts, Hollywood and the associated soft power, increasingly prevalent onlyf___ etc.

Private aviation.

many things:

indoor smoking ban actually working

you don't need passport and prior booking to visit every single tourist sight

car registration process, good luck in Chinese major cities, even EV won't help you anymore

those come first to my mind

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