{"id":20443,"date":"2025-10-14T04:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/americans-are-democracys-equivalent-of-second-generation-wealth-a-chinese-journalist-on-the-us-under-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:37:26","slug":"americans-are-democracys-equivalent-of-second-generation-wealth-a-chinese-journalist-on-the-us-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/americans-are-democracys-equivalent-of-second-generation-wealth-a-chinese-journalist-on-the-us-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Americans are democracy\u2019s equivalent of second-generation wealth\u2019: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once a stalwart of Hong Kong\u2019s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he\u2019s part newscaster, part professor, part friend<\/p>\n

On a Friday night in late May, Wang Jian was getting ready to broadcast. It was pouring outside, and he was sitting in the garage apartment behind his house, just outside Boston, eating dinner. \u201cI am very sensitive to what Trump does,\u201d Wang was telling me, in Mandarin, waving a fork. \u201cWhen Trump holds a cabinet meeting, he sits there and the people next to him start to flatter him. And I think, isn\u2019t 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 \u2018I have money.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Wang was sitting next to a rack of clothing \u2013 the shirts and jackets the 58-year-old newsman wears professionally \u2013 and sipping a seemingly bottomless cup of green tea that would eventually give way to coffee. 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 \u201cWang Jian\u2019s Daily Observations\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n

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\nOnce a stalwart of Hong Kong\u2019s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he\u2019s part newscaster, part professor, part friend
\nOn a Friday night in late May, Wang Jian was getting ready to broadcast. It was pouring outside, and he was sitting in the garage apartment behind his house, just outside Boston, eating dinner. \u201cI am very sensitive to what Trump does,\u201d Wang was telling me, in Mandarin, waving a fork. \u201cWhen Trump holds a cabinet meeting, he sits there and the people next to him start to flatter him. And I think, isn\u2019t 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 \u2018I have money.\u2019\u201d
\nWang was sitting next to a rack of clothing \u2013 the shirts and jackets the 58-year-old newsman wears professionally \u2013 and sipping a seemingly bottomless cup of green tea that would eventually give way to coffee. 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 \u201cWang Jian\u2019s Daily Observations\u201d. 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. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once a stalwart of Hong Kong\u2019s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he\u2019s part newscaster, part professor, part friend On a Friday night in late May, Wang Jian was getting ready to broadcast. It was pouring outside, and …<\/p>\n

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