China responds to “hegemony and bullying” with other tariffs to American goods and a funny online campaign. The army of social media soldiers is now creating cartoons, memes and posters that attack US President Donald Trump.
Defense posts fired at the top of the most visited lists of social media, flooding platforms with sponsoring comments and jokes, AFP press agency reported. The report said Chinese online warriors use massive steps in artificial intelligence to create memes.
In addition, Chinese censors seemed to carefully curative public debate on American tariffs. According to The New York Times, some of the hashtags that focused more on the US ridicule, or on the praise of Chinese strengths, it was possible to trend on the Chinese Weibo platform similar to Weibo.
Most of them were explicitly initiated by the state media. For example, “America is fighting with a trade war and at the same time begging for eggs” was one of the popular hashtags founded by CCTV, a Chinese state transmitter. “China does not cause problems, but never be ahead,” was another, Now reported.
Meanwhile, all comments under the hashtag have been removed “The United States stores 104% of the Chinese goods tariff”. It reflects the message: “Sorry, the content of this topic is not displayed.”
Viral memories: “All China laughs Trump”
Here’s a view of some viral memes shared by Chinese social media users:
In one video, the Chinese Internet user opens his hands to reveal what goods they buy from the United States – nothing. According to AFP, his dozens of handrail videos against the US have accumulated tens of millions of views of Tiktok.
Meanwhile, the AI generated by Trump, US Vice President JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk on shoes and iPhone assembly lines quickly became viral.
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Other Americans depicted overweight and worked in a textile factory. The video was reportedly viewed nearly 20 million times on X with more than 227,000 likes. One clip mocked, “You taxed every truck, you taxed each tire
Others have shown a number of confused Eastern strips with sewing machines because the Americans produce clothes, shoes and electronic devices.
Another contribution Shared Foreign Ministry spokesman Beijing Mao Ning showed Trump’s trademark “Maga” marked “made in China” – with a price mark indicating increased costs.
One social media user said: “Chinese social social community is spreading, all of China laughs today.”
Viral cartoons and cartoons: Poker game
One of the viral cartoons, allegedly published in the Chinese newspaper, showed everything around Trump marked as “made in China” – only his “fart” was marked “Made in America”.
“The Chinese cartoon is perfectly ridiculed by Trump’s economic policy. Everything that was produced in the US in China … except the wind – it came out of Trump himself,” the social media user said.
The Chinese embassy in the US also shared several hard posters against Trump and its mutual tariffs. One such poster read “The Art of the Deal” and showed cards with the percentage numbers written on them. The script resembled poker play and “reportedly showed that Trump was selecting a new tariff rate”.
Another graphic cartoon, created by Chinese daily cartoonist Luo Jie, showed a tariff “bomb”. The General of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco published this cartoon on X and wrote: “Thomas L. Friedman: Instead of doing the whole industrial world against China, Trump has made America against the whole industrial world and China.”
The Chinese Embassy shared another post and ridiculed Trump’s decision to further increase import taxes in China to punish the Xi-Jinping country for retaliation against the American tariffs.
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