{"pk":47930,"title":"Chinese Reflections: Trump, Political Division, and the Unearned Privilege of American Exceptionalism","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>This short article explores the opinions of Chinese people resident in China concerning Donald Trump and the 2024 US presidential election. Political thinking in China is often perceived through West-centric perspectives, which fail to capture the ways in which Chinese people perceive political events. Few Chinese people have interest in American politics, but among those who do, opinions surrounding Trump and the 2024 election are split. These opinions are split in ways that challenge West-originating ideas of left-right divides. Chinese people find reasons to support or oppose Trump on the basis of support for or opposition to elements of China’s political and economic system. It is important to avoid the exceptionalism of understanding the world through the lens of American politics.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"American Exceptionalism"},{"word":"China"},{"word":"ChinAmerica"},{"word":"Donald Trump"},{"word":"US presidential election"},{"word":"political division"},{"word":"Western-centric analysis of China"},{"word":"Transnational American Studies"}],"section":"Special Section: Reflections on the US 2024 Elections in a Global Context","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s557514","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Adam","middle_name":"","last_name":"Grydehøj","name_suffix":"","institution":"South China University of Technology","department":"School of Foreign Languages","country":"China"},{"first_name":"Qi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pan","name_suffix":"","institution":"South China University of Technology","department":"School of Foreign Languages","country":"China"}],"date_submitted":"2025-05-25T20:51:02.225000Z","date_accepted":"2025-05-25T21:06:12.750000Z","date_published":"2025-08-03T18:05:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/47930/galley/36095/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/47930/galley/36095/download/"}]}