Right-wing populism with Chinese characteristics? Identity, otherness and global imaginaries in debating world politics online https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354066119850253 The past few years have seen an emerging discourse on Chinese social media that combines the claims, vocabulary and style of right-wing populisms in Europe and North America with previous forms of nationalism and racism in Chinese cyberspace. In other words, it provokes a similar hostility towards immigrants, Muslims, feminism, the so-called ‘liberal elites’ and progressive values in general. This article examines how, in debating global political events such as the European refugee crisis and the American presidential election, well-educated and well-informed Chinese Internet users appropriate the rhetoric of ‘Western-style’ right-wing populism to paradoxically criticise Western hegemony and discursively construct China’s ethno-racial and political identities. Through qualitative analysis of 1038 postings retrieved from a popular social media website, this research shows that by criticising Western ‘liberal elites’, the discourse constructs China’s ethno-racial identity against the ‘inferior’ non-Western other, exemplified by non-white immigrants and Muslims, with racial nationalism on the one hand; and formulates China’s political identity against the ‘declining’ Western other with realist authoritarianism on the other. The popular narratives of global order protest against Western hegemony while reinforcing a state-centric and hierarchical imaginary of global racial and civilisational order. We conclude by suggesting that the discourse embodies the logics of anti-Western Eurocentrism and anti-hegemonic hegemonies. This article: (1) provides critical insights into the changing ways in which self–other relations are imagined in Chinese popular geopolitical discourse; (2) sheds light on the global circulation of extremist discourses facilitated by the Internet; and (3) contributes to the ongoing debate on right-wing populism and the ‘crisis’ of the liberal world order.
川普叫停了奥巴马24位家庭成员和他的工作人员一直在消费并还将继续消费美国纳税人20年的的度假特权。 奥巴马享受这个度假特权的理由是以“正式出访”为由，他享有特权的年数总共将是20年直到2036年为止（任职时和卸任后），他度假特权的所有24人的费用和工资都是由美国国务院“总统出访和度假办公室”支付（Office of Presidential Visits and Vacations）。这笔由美国纳税人买单的奥巴马20年度假特权的累计消费是21亿美元。这笔讹诈美国纳税人财富的反常账目是被一位川普从外面雇来的普通白宫工作人员发现，并报告给川普。川普不但叫停这笔巨大的奥巴马家庭特权的开销，还给奥巴马送去一份账单，要求他付清他以前的不属于为国服务的个人特权消费。他的丈母娘每月还领取13000的养老金直到死！
