Chinese netizens have always had the habit of giving nicknames to political figures from various countries. Most of these nicknames are neither complimentary nor derogatory, and are mainly used for fun. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is called the "Golden Retriever Lion King", Indian Prime Minister Modi is called the "Old God", Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau is called "Little Potato", as for the President of the United States Trump is called "Comrade Chuan Jianguo." How did Trump get the name "Chuan Jianguo"? First of all, Trump’s full name is Donald Trump in English. Some people translated the word “Trump” as Trump, which led to stories about Trump’s life experience and his family.
As early as when Trump was first elected as the President of the United States, a rumor about his life experience appeared in China. The general meaning of this statement is: Trump was born in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, China in 1946. Trump’s father, Fred Trump (commonly known as: Old Trump), was a businessman who came to China to do business during the Anti-Japanese War. He did not leave China until 1947, a year after Trump was born. Old Trump experienced the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War. This statement also claims that the Trump family has always maintained a friendly attitude towards China due to its special relationship with China during the Anti-Japanese War, and that Trump’s uncle has also made outstanding contributions to New China.
This statement claims: Trump’s uncle John George Trump is a professor at MIT . In the 1950s, Zhao Zhongyao, the father of my country's atomic bomb, ran to the United States to find his friend John George Trump to purchase a batch of very important laboratory equipment. This John George Trump very interestingly handed over the precision equipment of the laboratory to Zhao Zhongyao in a half-sold and half-given way. Later, Zhao Zhongyao used these parts brought back from the United States to build my country's first 700,000 electron volt quantum electrostatic accelerator . So are the news revealed by these netizens true? First of all, it is actually fabricated that Trump was born in Sichuan.
In fact, Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York, USA. The reason why his name can be translated as Trump is just a coincidence that the pronunciation is close, but some Chinese netizens have made associations based on this. Trump does have a man named John George Trump who once served as an academician of the National Academy of Engineering . , but the statement that John George Trump once provided help for our country’s atomic bomb industry is mostly seen in the Internet self-media and netizens’ private friend circles. , blogs, etc. This statement has never been confirmed through official channels. I am afraid no one can tell clearly whether it is true.
In an exclusive interview with Trump in the " Wall Street Journal " on April 12, 2017, Trump told the media seriously: "The Korean Peninsula was once part of China." At that time, the crisis on the peninsula was intensifying, and at the same time, China-South Korea relations were in a state of sharpness due to the THAAD incident. Afterwards, the South Korean official responded: "This is not true and does not deserve a response." At the same time, Chinese netizens were furious because of this sentence. After that, netizens further uncovered a series of so-called deeds of the Trump family helping China. Around this time, the idea that Trump was an undercover agent of our country in the world's largest imperialist country began to appear, and netizens began to call Trump "Comrade Chuan Jianguo."
Trump withdrew from the "Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement" led by his predecessor Obama just three days after taking office. Since then, the United States has successively launched the "Paris Climate Change Agreement", UNESCO, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the Iranian nuclear issue. The Comprehensive Agreement, the "US-Korea Free Trade Agreement"... In the view of Chinese netizens, Trump's frequent withdrawal from the group has weakened the international influence of the United States and is conducive to China's expansion of international influence. At the same time, Trump raised the stick of technological blockade against China and prohibited Chinese companies from buying American chips. As a result, China was forced to independently develop its own chips. Trump’s series of actions ultimately objectively helped China.
As a result, more and more Chinese netizens began to promote the idea that "Comrade Chuan Jianguo" was our country's undercover agent to infiltrate US imperialism, claiming that the goal of "Comrade Chuan Jianguo" was to overthrow the world's largest imperialist country. The Trump administration's failure to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020 caused the United States to become the epicenter of the global epidemic. As a result, some American media began to claim that Trump is making China great again. In fact, the claim that Trump is Comrade Chuan Jianguo who is undercover in the world's largest imperialist country is nothing more than an Internet joke. Although this joke made everyone happy to hear it, it was not taken seriously.
Everything Trump does is for the benefit of the United States. Our domestic media always emphasize that Trump’s frequent withdrawal from the group damages the international image of the United States. It is true that the so-called America First principle will of course infringe on the interests of other countries, so the international image of Trump and his America First principle is very ugly. However, from the perspective of the United States, this is not necessarily wrong: after frequently withdrawing from the group, the United States has been able to concentrate on developing its own energy industry, thus providing a large number of employment opportunities for the American people. Data from 2019 shows that since Trump took office, the United States has added a total of 4.2 million jobs, the employment rate has reached the highest level in American history, and the unemployment rate has also reached a historical low in 50 years.
The America First principle has damaged the international image of the United States, but at the same time it has also brought benefits to the development of its domestic industries. So which aspect do you think Americans will pay more attention to? I am afraid that the ordinary American people are more concerned about their own immediate interests. As for the international image, they are not concerned about it. So what will Trump do to secure his position? Trump is by no means serving China. In fact, he is an outright anti-China element: launching a trade war against China and shamelessly smearing China during the epidemic. It's just that his containment strategy against China not only had no effect, but actually promoted China's development, so calling it "Chuan Jianguo" is more of an expression of irony.
