Shipowners do love Asian Officers, and for good reason.
Whenever an edict/policy change appears from 'the Office', the response is usually "yes sir, certainly sir", unlike those dastardly Western types who will ask often ask difficult questions as to why this has happened, or will indeed have the temerity to raise concerns to said office staff whenever they believe something to be unworkable/pointless/illegal/dangerous.
Our Asiatic cousins are also excellent in the eyes of the office with regards to the day to day running of the ship. The paperwork is normally immaculate and there is usually plenty of it, they do not waste time on such expensive, archaic and time consuming pastimes as physical maintenance. Indeed you could (and often do) walk aboard the most horrific of ships and find the ISM/Company paperwork in the office to be in excellent order, excellent indeed.
All those terrible Westerners do is order continual spares, ask awkward questions regarding maintenance decisions and of course, most heinously of all, rebel against their Masters back at HQ when slavishly insisting on following such obviously OTT and irrelevant regulations such as SOLAS and MARPOL.
Plus, just to gild the lily in addition to those advantages mentioned, they are often paid a fraction of the cost with much less leave - thumbs up all round in the boardroom!
Yes, I suppose those few of us Western Seagoing types left could learn a lot from our cousins in the East...