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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The interview to promote his new movie CZ12 was aired in December and translated into English by website Ministry of Tofu, but only alighted on by the US newspaper this week.

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.