Maoists for Trump? In China, Fans Admire His Nationalist Views
West said that has torn up the old rules of the ruling elites, not just of the capita
"Capitalists dominate the country." Asked about the American president, Mr. Yang was more generous: "Trump has socialist tendencies,
because the way he won power in a way reflected the workers’ demands." Many Maoists see Mr. Xi as a fellow traveler who is taking China in the right direction by restoring respect for Mao and Marx.
Chinese said that Trump’s ideology has oriented toward China, and he is learning from China,
Many on China’s far left see Mr. Trump as a dangerous foe who has questioned established American policy on Taiwan,
vowed to confront China’s hold on the disputed South China Sea and threatened to cut Chinese exports to America.
Yang Jianguo was that We love Chairman Mao because we’re poor, and the poor all love Chairman Mao,
"They know the officials use them, but they also use the officials." While party leaders may find them useful for intimidating critics, the Maoists want to take China in a different direction and reverse market policies
that have fueled decades of growth, by seizing the assets of the rich and strengthening state ownership of industry, for example.
The global wave of nationalist, anti-establishment sentiment
that Mr. Trump rode to power has washed ashore in China, encouraging a hard-left fringe that is hostile to capitalism and Western influence, and that the Communist Party has long sought to cultivate — and contain.
