The resistance to the Fourth Turning is seldom well documented, but you can find it if you know where to look. Governments are ashamed of it, so they cover it up, historians give it short shrift. If you go here:
http://twaintimes.net/page4.html and look under 1863, you'll find a reference to hundreds being killed in the New York draft riots. Clemens mentioned being turned out and given a gun to go fight rioters against the draft in St Louis.
The hardening of attitudes that comes about during the late Third Turning is hard to shake off. I've been tracking the election cycle fairly closely, and it appears to me that people became very locked into position before the races actually started. Most states are even more partisan than they were in 2008, with the result that this election appears to be a rerun of the 2008 election in most ways. Very little is actually at any point where it might change at all. Polls don't even show a convention bump for Romney, and I doubt they'll show one for Obama. This is what would be expected from a late Third Turning. OFC, I'm the guy who argues that a saeclum is now longer because of longer lifespans giving a longer period of work and influence.
The cycle that leads to a financial crisis is simple and easy, but it's positive feedback, and thus always leads to an out of control situation. Financial houses ask for relaxation of the rules, pointing out that they'll be able to pay more taxes if they make more money. The pols oblige, because they like spending money. A few turns about that loop and usury becomes not only common but ennobled, while we explain to each other how greed is good for us. There are good and practical reasons why usury should be limited and greed controlled, reasons having nothing to do with ethics or morals but simple conservation of the market and maintenance of the economy. Interest rates in the US are still high as hell for the most common loans, this is a fact and has nothing to do with the FED's gifts to the banks and financial houses. It seems to occur to no one that if these loans are so "risky", perhaps they should not be allowed in the first place.
Money is running around the world in all directions now, trying to find that safe place where neither war nor economic collapse nor the law will take it away from it's current holder. This is hardly limited to the Chinese.