He isn't even a local. At the very start he explains they flew him in as a translator because he knows Chinese. The Chinese guy spends the whole movie lecturing him 'your country this, your country that' but.. he's not from around there... but yeah, I know they are talking in a more general sense. I bet if he would have tried to defend himself that Chinese dude would have ripped him apart with knowledge of his own country as well. As the dude said, 'You don't even know your own countries history"