Comment by crush-n-spread

Jackie is Chinese. He ought to be pro-China. In the WaPo article you linked, he says the following:

  If our own countrymen don’t support our country, 
  who will support our country? We know our country 
  has many problems. We [can] talk about it when the 
  door is closed. To outsiders, [we should say] “our 
  country is the best.”

and

  Seriously, I am always like, when the door is 
  closed, “Our country is like this and this. Who 
  and who is not good.” But outside, “Our country 
  is the best, like so and so, is the best.” You 
  cannot say our country has problems [when you are
  outside], like “Yes, our country is bad.”

Can you fault him for that? Perhaps it is the American standard that is wrong. Perhaps it is wrong to talk poorly of your own state on the global stage. Just because Americans (who own the fruits of 70-odd years of global dominance) are willing to disparage their country to no end, does not mean that it should be a standard for everyone.

t. Canadian