The full context of that quote sheds some light on this: > Chairman: The Chinese people are quite xenophobic [排外得很]. You can accommodate many ethnic groups. We

The full context of that quote sheds some light on this: > Chairman: The Chinese people are quite xenophobic [排外得很]. You can accommodate many ethnic groups. We don’t have many foreigners in China. You have many different ethnic groups. You have 600,000 Chinese in the United States, but we probably don’t even have 60 Americans. I don’t know why. I think by the last sentence he meant he didn't know what the reason for the xenophobia was.