China’s trade war song goes viral

THE HINDUSTAN TIMES, 21 MAY, 2019

- Perhaps nothing captures the growing anti-us sentiment in China better than a song about the trade war that is going viral in Beijing: “If the perpetrator wants to fight, we will beat him out of his wits.”

This privately-produced song has more than 100,000 views on Wechat and is just one of many signs of brewing anti-american sentiment on Chinese social media as trade talks falter.

State media has carried commentaries urging unified Other plans include displaying the Chinese flag around National Day on October 1 resistance to foreign pressure, including an editorial from the nationalist Global Times calling the trade dispute a “people’s war” and a threat to all of China.