Americans are democracy's equivalent of second-generation wealth': a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
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Americans are democracy's equivalent of second-generation wealth': a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
"I am very sensitive to what Trump does, Wang was telling me, in Mandarin, waving a fork. When Trump holds a cabinet meeting, he sits there and the people next to him start to flatter him. And I think, isn't this the same as Mao Zedong? Trump sells the same thing: a little bit of populism, plus a little bit of small-town shrewdness, plus a little bit of I have money.'"
"By 11pm, he would walk across the room and snap on a set of ring lights, ready to carry on an unbroken string of chatter for a YouTube news programme that he calls Wang Jian's Daily Observations. It was a slow news night but he would end up talking until nearly 1am. This was his second broadcast of the day. Different time zones, he explained to me, different audiences."
Wang Jian broadcasts nightly from a garage apartment outside Boston, often twice a day to reach different time zones. He is a former Hong Kong and mainland media professional who now posts news and analysis videos on YouTube under the name Wang Jian's Daily Observations and has more than 800,000 subscribers. He serves Chinese expatriates and mainland viewers who bypass China's firewall. His style mixes the impersonal cadence of a veteran newscaster with personal asides. He aims to fill gaps left by propaganda, censorship and disinformation, and his audience finds him entertaining, professional and reassuringly objective.
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