The Bigotry of the East India Company

He is a huge anti Chinese bigot. James involved him and shipmates disguising themselves as Chinese at the Feast of Lanterns in order to penetrate the city declared out of bounds to Europeans being once in the whole party threw off disguise and broke some of the lanterns, which were accounted precious. So he has this view that like Indian people are noble, they're never inherently noble and we've corrupted them. He would later learn to work with Chinese traders in the land that he eventually conquered, but he never got over his bigotry against them, which would eventually lead to horrific bloodshed.