Maoists for Trump? In China, Fans Admire His Nationalist Views<br />West said that has torn up the old rules of the ruling elites, not just of the capita<br />"Capitalists dominate the country." Asked about the American president, Mr. Yang was more generous: "Trump has socialist tendencies,<br />because the way he won power in a way reflected the workers’ demands." Many Maoists see Mr. Xi as a fellow traveler who is taking China in the right direction by restoring respect for Mao and Marx.<br />Chinese said that Trump’s ideology has oriented toward China, and he is learning from China,<br />Many on China’s far left see Mr. Trump as a dangerous foe who has questioned established American policy on Taiwan,<br />vowed to confront China’s hold on the disputed South China Sea and threatened to cut Chinese exports to America.<br />Yang Jianguo was that We love Chairman Mao because we’re poor, and the poor all love Chairman Mao,<br />"They know the officials use them, but they also use the officials." While party leaders may find them useful for intimidating critics, the Maoists want to take China in a different direction and reverse market policies<br />that have fueled decades of growth, by seizing the assets of the rich and strengthening state ownership of industry, for example.<br />The global wave of nationalist, anti-establishment sentiment<br />that Mr. Trump rode to power has washed ashore in China, encouraging a hard-left fringe that is hostile to capitalism and Western influence, and that the Communist Party has long sought to cultivate — and contain.
