His book AI Superpowers is frontloaded with a lot of "Ra Ra mighty China inevitably will win the AI competition" stuff. I just felt sad for him if AI nationalism is his genuine world view, and not just some party line he has to parrot to appease the commissars.
Let's not discount folks just because they are patriotic. A lot of people (including ones you probably do respect) fall into that pit - it's like religion, just something people also do. It doesn't change anything else they achieve.
That said, the license on the AI they produce is not open. Calling it open is dumb and for that a certain measure of disrespect is warranted.