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I went searching for an attribution for that quote and found nothing, but did turn up this Guardian article which has this quote:

MacGregor has been fascinated to see at close quarters the Chinese beginning to open up to the world. It had initially been hard, he suggested, even to describe the concept of the British Museum to the Chinese, its role as a storehouse of global memory. 'It is,' he told me, 'an alien concept for the Chinese to have a museum that houses the whole world. Their museums only have Chinese objects in them..."

HOW DID THE BRITISH MUSEUM GET THOSE ARTIFACTS MACGREGOR. HOW

They liked him because he hated Confucians and brought China out of the Warring States period, which Chinese people see as a parallel to the Warlord era that the CPC brought China out of.

In the modern day replace scholars with US Journalists and burying them alive starts to sound like a really great idea.

Can we do this with Gamers™

He buried 460 scholars alive; we have buried forty-six thousand scholars alive... You [intellectuals] revile us for being Qin Shi Huangs. You are wrong. We have surpassed Qin Shi Huang a hundredfold. When you berate us for imitating his despotism, we are happy to agree! Your mistake was that you did not say so enough.