What is China really thinking about Trump? He and the revenge president Mao would have happened well Tania Branjan
WWhen the rare protests erupted in China in 2022, he read one of the slogans: “We want reform, not a cultural revolution.” He referred to complaints that the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, was increasingly behaving Mao. His exceptional hegemony was presented to his party, political repression, narrow social controls, and the worship of the prosperous personality themselves to compare with the man who ruled China for decades.
However, Shi is committed to order, discipline, and the practice of power through members of the Communist Party. Zedong enjoys turmoil and turns into the power of the masses. For this reason, increasingly, many in China Mao compares with the leader of the modern era. Despite the virginity of the trade war, Donald Trump, they may be shocked by what he does for his country. They see a proud nation that does not fall out with an external threat, but through the heterogeneous ego at the top – a chaotic, revenge force that uses an exciting speech to rid of mobs and destruction of institutions, and the inability to predict his strength. It looks very familiar.
In one A widely distributed article Regarding the American policy, legal researcher Zhang Qianvan is called the “American Cultural Revolution”. Instead of controlling everything tightly, as XI and other powerful, Trump sees the chances of turmoil. Like Mao, ready to unleash the cultural revolution almost 60 years ago, it seems that he believes that a brighter future will be reached through a “great disorder under the sky”.
It is clear that the measurement cannot go to this extent. The cultural revolution, which lasted a decade, witnessed that two million people were killed or hunted to their deaths and tens of millions of persecuted in unusual cruelty. It has destroyed a lot of China’s culture, closed schools and universities, and silenced its greatest thinkers and tearing families. No person was elected, and without a Palis coup, there was no way to remove it. The United States has strong examinations, balances and protection of freedom of expression. This is about ringing, not repetition.
But even before Trump wins his post, writer Jiayang admires male The two men “dialectical appendix and madness are foreign bone”. In 2017, the world of China Jeremy Parmy A long comparison He argued that Mao “portrayed himself as a strange person who motivated an uprising for the masses against a hardening system.”
When I searched for red memory, my book on how to form a cultural revolution and compete with China, and I felt the strange ability of Trump to worrying the public’s identifier. Like Mao, political power is amplified by dividing as other leaders are challenging.
the Revolutionary nature From Trump’s second period, the case only strengthens. Mao launched the cultural revolution after his great catastrophic joke forward: a strange economic plan that led to up to 45 million deaths of starvation before it was discovered by more pragmatic figures. He wanted to take revenge and remove the skeptics unwilling to follow his next goal. “We can monitor Trump exactly the purest as [the Cultural Revolution] The purest Mao revealed, ” He writes Michelle Bonin, a pioneer expert in the cultural revolution. The president, too, get rid of restrictions.
Many on the right hate these comparisons, no matter how eligible, and not only because of the brutality of the times or the shock of their hero’s vision compared to the most famous Communist in China. They argue (and in fairness, some Chinese survivors) that the cultural revolution is better compared to the protests of the American campus in recent years, as they throw fanatic students as modern red guards.
But even if you are sharing their rejection of the demonstrators, the comparison is not held. The Red Guard was the means of Mao to the end of Mao, born from his worship and capable of running only with his support and encouragement. Professor Zhang also writes in his article: “Basically, the cultural revolution means the supreme leader organizing a mass movement … to harness ordinary citizens to clarify the porridge elites.”
Trump replaced the professionals who are experienced with devastating ideologies, making parts of the country unable to work. He remembers his hatred for experts an era in which loyalty and political position – “redness” – is more important than artistic knowledge. We urge “Trust in the instincts of the president“While the global economy is trembling. Chinese citizens have once informed that they are” only following “Mao’s instructions, including” those we understand at the present time. “
The leaders about Mao had often amazed to learn his intentions from government media; The Council of Ministers was arrested through real social functions. Like MAO, Trump issues mysterious or contradictory data, then sits and helps on the surface Get out pieces of each other.
What lessons may the United States take from one of the most mysterious parts in Chinese history? The first is that Mao was able to restore chaos because those around him fear his deadly anger often and did not understand the party to see him completely until it was too late. Republicans, business leaders and others can challenge Trump, however they still choose not to do so.
The second is that nothing lasts forever. The cultural revolution was close to Mao’s death in 1976. What followed was social, cultural, economic and even political. Although it has never been allowed to stead a democratic motives, the effects of hope and creativity in that era be borne to this day, although Beijing’s best efforts.
If this can happen even in one party system, perhaps, post -educational, is a better thing. However, China is still paying the political, social and psychological price of Mao and cruelty. The longer this campaign, the more damage.