US presidential election 2020: To some, Trump is making China great again

People walk past a giant screen broadcasting news footage of Chinese President Xi Jinping at a shopping area in Beijing, on July 31, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Chinese netizens are fond of coming up with nicknames for well-known personalities, and US presidents are not spared.

President Donald Trump has been known as "chuanpu", which is a transliteration of his last name, but also means Chinese spoken with a Sichuan accent.

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