On the heels of Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, Hua Jianping, a 40-year-old Beijing native and host of the popular Chinese-language “U.S. Election” podcast, spoke to ChinaFile by telephone from his home in College Station, Texas. Hua started the podcast at the time of the first Republican debate in August 2015, and at its peak in June of this
City-dwellers in China and the United States are among the against, but the two groups responded differently to the outcome of the U.S. election, and the contrast was palpable between the thousands of posts on the Chinese Internet and a proclamations from the campaign trail as an opportunity for Beijing to advance its foreign policy interests around the globe.