At this point in history that attitude would make sense; but its recent.
It may be that Chinese growth ends up curtailing emigration. They always sold Free Trade as doing that.
But it remains to be seen. Chinese culture has never valued consumption. So they may never have anything but an export economy, and eventually will slip back into economic stasis when production is cheaper elsewhere.
It doesn’t matter either way: they could lose 200 million of their populace and all it would do is relieve some social pressure.
But for us, it would mean that our country would be predominantly Chinese.
Isn’t it interesting that they come here, and not Latin America?
If they were the energetic self starters we are led to believe they are, wouldn’t that be where you would go to really make a difference?
But they don’t.
Chinese go everywhere and succeed (often in the face of officially sanctioned discrimination, such as in Malaysia). They are among the most economically successful minorities in disparate cultures.