China studies 'White Trash' to understand Trump

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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
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Nancy Isenberg's best seller White Trash - The 400 year untold history of class in America, is at the top of the reading list at the academy's Institute of American Studies.

"They think Chinese stole their jobs and companies moved from the US to other countries," said Zhao Mei, the managing editor of the Chinese Journal of American Studies, summarising the main thesis of White Trash.

In Ohio, "white people" haven't worked for several generations and don't leave Ohio, she told reporters at a briefing on the trade war in Beijing on Monday.


Isenberg has been in constant demand with US media since 2016 to explain the phenomena that put Trump in the White House.



"They want to talk,” Trump said, referring to Chinese officials. “It’s just not the right time to talk right now, to be honest with China.”

The potential for Trump to carry through his next threat, of imposing a 25 per cent tariff on an extra $US200 billion in Chinese consumer goods next month, has rattled Beijing.

The Chinese researchers said unlike the US's earlier trade war with Japan, over manufactured goods, the rise of global supply chains meant the US and Chinese economies were intertwined and Trump's tariffs would also hit US companies and consumers.


https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-studies-white-trash-to-understand-trump-20180827-p5004u.html
 
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