Interesting. Given the current administration, I would say our uncle point is far lower than theirs. And, everybody knows it.
I think their uncle point is way lower, because outside of the Mao era, they've been pretty faithful to the Confucian prescription that one should look to one's family's interests before those of the state. They're also agnostic to a fault - no Japanese kamikaze instinct to die fighting in order to join a bunch of notional guardian spirits there. The average Chinese has no problem sending somebody else's kid to die for his country, but will balk and resist when his own kid's life is on the line, to the extent of sending him abroad. The default Chinese principle, drilled in over thousands of years, is "Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers", especially kin. Mao worship kept that in abeyance during his rule. But Mao is long gone, and no one else has been able to cast the hypnotic spell Mao once did over the Chinese people.