The Chinese people I have known were not like that.
I told a Chinese woman that when I was a little girl, my stepfather would tell me to eat all of the food on my plate because children were starving in China.
She thought that was such a wild and funny story that she immediately called her daughter to share it.
(I never dared say to Dad that I didn’t see how what I ate affected the kids in China.)
Between 15 and 50 million died in the Great Leap Forward famine
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/great-leap-forward-famine