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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Zhang Yuanan Talks to Evan Osnos About the Chinese View of Trump

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Barack, Washington, Wickenden, News, Obama, Politics, Wnyc, Lizza, President

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

At the Republican National Convention in 2016, Evan Osnos interviewed Zhang Yuanan, a reporter for Caixin, a news organization based in Beijing. Zhang was tasked with translating Trump’s rhetoric—literally and figuratively—for a Chinese audience. A year later, Osnos catches up with Zhang to find out if China is really ready for a U.S. policy that puts “America first.”

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On today's politics and more podcast, Evan Osnos talks with Chinese journalist Yuan

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Yuan Zhang. Evan met Zhang at the 2016 Republican National Convention. A year later, they

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discuss how the Trump administration has been received in China.

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I met a journalist named Yuanan Zhang last year at the Republican National Convention.

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She was covering the convention for Tai Xin, which is a business magazine in Beijing.

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And she was listening very closely to what Donald Trump had to say because he'd been talking in very tough terms about China's economic policy.

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This includes stopping China's outrageous theft of intellectual property, along with their illegal

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product dumping and their devastating currency manipulation.

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They are the greatest currency manipulators ever. I interviewed Yuanan

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Zhang at the convention. And now six months into the Trump administration, we met up again in

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Washington. So we follow all of the twists and turns over here with immense interest. How closely

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