Yes, now I do admit I might have exaggerated a little and surely not all Chinese people will think the same way under the supreme leader. This is totally anecdotal, however, from my experience, seeing from my Chinese friends and colleagues, many Chinese people do feel very much so proud of their country, sometimes too much for things which can be debatable. It almost feels like an inferiority complex since the country itself developed so quickly in short period of time. Perfect example is this COVID19.
They should now have much experience on infectious disease breakouts (remember SARS?) but they still let this happen by making same mistakes. I remember WOH criticizing heavily on China concealing and covering up the disease which is now almost 20 years ago. So much more people have suffered and passed with COVID19 today and what does the Director-general of WHO do? goes travel to China just to praise what the country is doing disregarding all of their unethical and inhuman ways of covering this up not mentioning any of the virus's scientific origin too, which is fine because how to deal with the problem is more important. By the way, the head of the WHO is well supported by the Chinese communist party and is how he became appointed.
When I read those articles, it gives me feeling of more negativeness and uncertainties of the government because if there is any possibility of their reports of containment is false (which is possible given their communism characteristic and past record), and if you take that bit out, are they really praising, it should be completely opposite. The country is using extreme measures (using guns, refusing to diagnose and treat people to meet the standard of 0 new patient and giving up on certain patients who have low chance of survival by putting them in a bag and cremating them alive) and privacy breach everyday. Imagine being watched where you are and what you do every single minute.
As much as I would like to believe their success stories with the COVID19 from the Chinese government, all they care about is their image to the outside world and blame others for the virus, I would not bet my money on it and surely not my life.