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Actor Jackie Chan expressed a desire to join the Chinese Communist Party in comments last week at a China Film Association conference.

“Abroad they often say, ‘proud to be Chinese.’ I’m very lucky to be a Chinese person, but I also am very jealous that you all are Party members. I just think the Chinese Communist Party is really so magnificent,” Chan said in remarks translated by Variety. “What the Party says, what it promises, it doesn’t need 100 years to accomplish — it will definitely accomplish it in just a few decades. I want to be a Party member!”

Chan is from Hong Kong but has long been a backer of the CCP, serving in the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Some Hong Kong residents criticized Chan in 2019 for expressing support for China amid a crackdown on protesters in the formerly autonomous territory.