Showing posts with label Chinese elite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese elite. Show all posts

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Andrew Batson — Zhao Lingmin on the roots of Chinese elite support for Trump

A definitive overview of this question is over at Ma Tianjie’s Chublic Opinion, but one of the sources in that piece I thought was worth digging into a bit more. It’s a column by Zhao Lingmin, originally published on the FT Chinese site back in October, that focuses on what the enthusiasm for Trump says about Chinese society. My translation follows: