Newsletter

Understanding Trump’s Relationship with China Through Language and Culture

When former US President Trump visited China during his term in office, he showed a pro-China attitude. He received the video of his granddaughter Arabella, aged 6 at the time, wearing the now fashionable red dress and sings “Jasmine” liked from all over the world. ‘Amazing.

AP photos

Most foreigners can speak Mandarin fluently. Instead, I admire the “Rwandan Youth Team” which consists of many young African men and women. You can go to Youtube and Douyin to see their style of singing cross-strait pop songs. The only thing is that they learned Chinese from the local Confucius Institute, not from aristocratic American kids who paid $500 for a class. What is the difference? This represents the success of the Confucius Institute in spreading Chinese culture. It seems that Chinese tutors make a lot of effort to teach foreigners to speak Chinese. One of the members of the “Rwanda Youth Team” remembered being in his first class, the teacher played the famous song Teresa Teng “Sweet Honey”. It sounds so good. Africans are particularly talented in music. As the saying goes, “A song is worth a thousand words.” All of them fell in love with Chinese. Learning Chinese became a hobby, he attracted more friends, including young people from Britain who spoke Mandarin as fluently as he did. Jam, well, this Chinese cultural power expands endlessly on the Internet.

Arabella doesn’t speak Chinese well, but I have some objections to her grandfather. In fact, maybe because of his status, he has to rule China and has to oppose China, so he always has trouble with us.

Bloomberg reported that China’s stock market plunged on Monday, and that Trump immediately pumped money into his campaign the next day. “I feel very sad for them. The Chinese stock market crashed yesterday. You know why? Because I won Iowa.” Trump stressed: “It’s absolutely true, since those vote numbers started came out yesterday, they crash It’s so boring, they haven’t come across such a bad situation for many years.”

He predicted that he would be tough on China until the end: “I love China. I love everyone, but they can’t take advantage of us. You understand what’s happening. If I win, they know there will be no good results.”

Trump immediately launched a trade war against China after taking office in 2018. When he was running for re-election in 2020, he turned around and played the China card by turning Mandarin into the Chinese card. He declared: “After I lose the election, China will own the United States, and Americans must learn to speak Chinese together.”

What’s wrong with Americans learning Chinese It’s a way to make money if everyone sings about China together The biggest possibility is a Grammy Award along with a Chinese Song Award We might also do a simulcast with CCTV Spring Festival Gala, right? However, I suddenly felt that Trump is an educated person because he understands culture.

Poet Yu Guang was interviewed by the United Daily News in 2015 and talked about Chinese education. He compared it: “Chinese culture is a big circle, everyone is in the center of the circle, and Chinese is its “radius” How long is the radius, how big can the circle be drawn; once the radius If’ n fall, it cannot become a circle.”

In 2017, when Trump visited the Forbidden City, he mentioned that “Egypt has a history of 8,000 years and is the oldest civilization.” Xi Jinping, who was standing by, said: “Yes, Egypt is older. But the culture has never stopped flowing and has always been passed down. Only China.” It seemed that Trump had an epiphany at the time.

China has a history of 3,000 years of written records, which has been confirmed by archaeological work in the Xia Dynasty and higher than 2,000 years ago. During this long period of five thousand years in China, there was no interruption never on our civilization. One of the secrets lies in the legacy of the Chinese language.

Now you should understand why Trump is so opposed to China He doesn’t want the US to be included in China’s Baichuan. But, let me ask you, are you thinking too much?

Huang Binghua

**Blog articles are written at your own risk and do not represent the position of our company**

#Trump #intention #singing #good #song #ability #sing #bad #words #China