The former president’s arraignment brought rare entertainment to the tightly controlled Chinese internet, and state media didn’t miss a chance to pile on.
The unprecedented scenes of former president Donald Trump’s arraignment in New York and his furious response afterward fascinated the Chinese internet Wednesday, with some seizing the chance to slam U.S. democracy and many more simply binge-watching a “premium show without paywall.
The unexpected plot twist of the Trump indictment brought rare entertainment to the tightly controlled Chinese cyberspace, analysts noted, with the internet feeling increasingly like an echo chamber dominated by state propaganda and nationalist influencers.Trump-related discussions dominated social media chat this week, with a vaguely worded hashtag about “Trump’s 136-year prison term” getting nearly 400 million views on Weibo as of Wednesday afternoon.
“Trump must continue with his election campaign to avoid being politically annihilated and imprisonment,” nationalist commentator Ming Jinwei, formerly a senior editor at Xinhua, wrote in his popular WeChat blog.
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