My disdain for nationalism is universal and that there are some of it in China is a given.
But there is a difference between patriotism/national pride and nationalism of the dangerous kind.
I don’t know if you have been in China, but I have, incl. during the Cultural Revolution, when Nationalism was running rampant and reached feverish proportion.
In today’s China I detect a healthy national pride, although there may be pockets of nationalism that I have not experienced.
My attitude towards refugees and asylum seekers are coloured by by experience from working in Bangladesh and witnessing nationalist thugs storming into a Bihari refugee camp with parangs, killing indiscriminately. Also from picking up well over 2000 Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea in the late 1970’s when Master on a drillship working there.
I am a firm believer in the rights of people in danger to seek refuge or asylum per the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 and the Protocol of 1967 and for all signatories to honour their obligation to do so:
I am angered by seeing the hypocrisy of those rich countries when the problem suddenly is on their doorstep. For years they have been telling others, incl. non-signatories, that they have to accept millions on their soil, while taking a few select one themselves.
BTW; USA used to be one of the countries that took the most, at 95000 a year. It is still a small number relative to the population and relative to the number of refugees in the world though.
(Sweden is the country that has taken most relative to population)
At the same time they pride themselves of contributing a little bit money from all their riches to help.
At the moment there are over 60 mill. refugees in the world. more then any time since WWII. They are mostly in camps in Bangladesh, the Middle East countries and in Africa, with little hope of returning home soon, or to be resettled in rich countries. The rich countries contribute very little towards their upkeep. (Less than USD 2/pers./day)
A few thousand of those have been taken in by OECD countries, while a few hundred thousand has entered Europe and applied for asylum. Most are held in reception centers for years, before they get permission to stay and work.
There are a lot of migrants that is entering illegally. I may have sympathy with their plight, but they do not have any right of protection and should be repatriated a.s.a.p. rather than be kept in suspense for years. Many are living rough on the streets, incl. children.
So no, I’m not a hypocrite and if you have read my earlier posts in this forum you should know that be now. (Assuming you are not one yourself)