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Quite a  bit as it turns out, in the wake of President Trump’s arrival on his current chaotic visit to China - (China’s President Xi Jinping didn’t even bother to come out to the airport to greet him).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfRYrXzMpHU

President Trump has already garnered quite a number of unflattering nicknames on Chinese social media which include:

懂 王 dǒng wáng  -  “King Know-it-all”

万 税 爷 wàn shuì yé  -  “Lord of Ten Thousand Taxes” (a pun on 万 岁 wàn Suì - “Ten Thousand Years!”)

川  宝 chuan bao - “Baby Trump”

But the latest nickname  for Trump to go viral on Chinese social media is a back-handed compliment:

川  建 国 chuan jiàn guó - “Trump The Nation Builder”

As Helen Ann-Smith the Asia correspondent for Sky News explains, the joke lies in the suggestion that it is China not America which has been made much stronger by Trump’s ill-advised tariff policies in particular.

President Trump is now the supplicant at the gates of the Forbidden City in Beijing. America urgently needs  access to China’s supply of REM (rare earth minerals) to maintain its own advanced technologies, and to restore the Pentagon’s much depleted stock of smart weapons that have been drained by the ill advised war on Iran.

Xi Jinping by contrast will settle for any (or all ) of the “3 Big T’s  —>  “Tariffs/Technology/Taiwan.

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D Trump either has no shame, or is oblivious ( too dumb to catch on ) to embarrassment.
As are all the idiots who voted for him, and continue to support him.

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