During the show, Chan also claimed that Chinese people should only criticise China among their own people, and not to foreigners. “We [can] talk about it when the door is closed. To outsiders, [we should say], ‘our country is the best’,” he advised.
Action star Jackie Chan has once again sparked controversy by branding America the world’s “most corrupt” country in a TV interview.
His comments were slammed by The Washington Post’s foreign affairs blogger Max Fisher as “anti-American” and a reflection of China’s insecurity about itself.
Chan told Phoenix TV that China has been bullied by international powers for a long time and only began making progress in recent years.
Chan added that while China has a corruption problem, so do other nations, including America.
“If you talk about corruption, the entire world – America – has no corruption?” said the actor.
He went on to say America is “the most corrupt [country] in the world” – not China. “Where does this great breakdown [of corruption] come from? It started exactly from the [rest of the] world, the United States … If our own countrymen don’t support our country, who will?” he said.
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