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“It seems the cultural revolution.” The Chinese who have long been looking at the United States as a model for democracy that dream of their own country are increasingly concerned with President Trump’s speech, style and actions.
At the same time that in the United States, Americans are struggling with the turbulence triggered by Trump administration, many Chinese are discovering that they identify with what many Americans are going through.
According to, several Chinese journalists and activists are drawing parallels between what is happening in the United States now and the infamous “Cultural Revolution ” that occurred in China in the 1960s and 1970s under the dictator Mao Zedong.
The young advisers who Elon Musk sent to dismantle the US government remind the red guards to some Chinese that Mao Zedong recruited to destroy the bureaucracy at the height of the cultural revolution“Note the New York newspaper.
Upon listening to the President Trump speculate on a third termit is to imagine that the leader of China, Xi Jinping, be thinking, ‘I know how to do this‘Says Nyt. The Chinese president assured in 2022 an additional presidential term, approving a constitutional change to this purpose.
These Chinese dissidents also emphasize the flattering used by members of Trump’s office and by the official accounts of social networks of the government, which still seems to be more extremist than propaganda itself of the Chinese Communist Party.
“Even publications posts of the CCP embassy, with all its advertising, They are not every day to compliment obsessively Xi Jinping“, recently Deng Haiyana critic of the Chinese government on X/Twitter.
These Chinese are watching things that thought they could only happen in China: advertising advertisements, intimidation of the means of social communication and leaders of some of the largest companies in the country to compete in favor of the leaders – not to mention a
“I am overwhelmed with a feeling of familiarity “This is so much like China,” he told New York Time Zhang Wenminresearch journalist who 2 years ago left China to and moved to the United States. ” skirt to fall into the fire“.
Of course Both countries are fundamentally different. China is a unique state that lacks the three pillars of the American system: freedom, democracy and rule of law. Millions of Chinese died during the Cultural Revolution and tens of millions were persecuted.
What is happening in the United States It’s far from itnota o The New York Times. At least, for now.
