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

Compared with Mr Donald Trump, who has increasingly been cast by Chinese state media as having gone off his rocker, President Xi Jinping (seen here in news footage in Beijing last month) is seen as being above the fray and busy with tending to domest
Compared with Mr Donald Trump, who has increasingly been cast by Chinese state media as having gone off his rocker, President Xi Jinping (seen here in news footage in Beijing last month) is seen as being above the fray and busy with tending to domestic affairs. 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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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on August 30, 2020, with the headline US presidential election 2020: To some, Trump is making China great again. Subscribe