Trump administration officials promoted tariffs as a way to augment US production and create more paid jobs. But American owners of compact businesses painted a completely different picture of the situation on Tiktok. In one film, the founder of a fashionable brand of hair accessories turned her eyes and explained that the products of the company “literally cannot be done here”. In another, the general director of a footwear company similarly said that China “is the only place where I could produce.” The owner of a company, which means that self -mutilation kiosks regretted how terrible his experiences cooperated with suppliers in the US compared to China. “The point is that Americans are a group of children and they are hard to work with them,” said The Camera.
The founder of the London clothing brand hit a more hot tone, sending a slide from a show of her photos posing with clothing employees, with whom the company’s partners in China, set to the song Fray “Haol After You”. The text applied in one photo, reading “our victories are their victories.” Post Tiktok received over 55,000 likes, which indicates how attitudes towards China have evolved among at least some Western consumers, compared to the past, when the country’s factory was mostly associated with pumping economical, lean goods. “Suddenly people see: Oh, this is not the imagined” slave work “that does my clothes, they are actually people,” says Tianyu Fang, an employee at Modern America Think Tank and one of the co -founders of the Chinese Bulletin of the online culture of the Chaoyang Trap online culture.
In recent weeks, when the constantly changing commercial policy of the administration of Trump enraged close American allies, such as Canada, many outstanding commentators even began to suggest that perhaps the era of American uniqueness has ended. They claimed that the upcoming decades would be defined by the creation of China.
“Chinese age, brought by Donald Trump,” said David Frum, a staff writer Post on social media On April 2, the Modern York Times opinion writer Thomas Friedman He published a column On the same day he was delighted with a recent trip to China, during which he witnessed the impressive infrastructure and technological development of this country. He was the header “I just saw the future. He wasn’t in America.”
“When people say it is Chinese age, they really mean that a consensus, that it will be American age, is broken,” says Fang.
Growing influence
When Trump’s most versatile tariffs caused that the global stock market markets took Nosedive at the beginning of this week, in the social media of Darren Watkins Jr., better known as Ishowpeed for its over 100 million collective, it was Wrapping A extensive trip around China with stops in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities. Watkins spent the days live, mixing with Chinese celebrities and rides on a boat with a shiny panorama of Hong Kong as a background. Getting in real time, Ishowpeed fans received a “unprecedented occasion” to see “Unfilted China”, Yaling Jiang, general director of the strategy company Aperturechina, She wrote in her bulletin.
Many Americans noticed another direct look in China at the beginning of this year, when the US was to prohibit Tiktok throughout the country. Expecting that the application may soon disappear, hundreds of thousands of people gathered Rednote, another Chinese social media application, in which they saw the posts of people in China, which show their home electric cars and comfortable city apartments. The Tiktok itself, which was created by the Chinese technological giant Bytedance, is a testimony to the growing gentle power of China. Trump swore to save the application and despite the warnings of American legislators about the threats related to data security it creates, Less Americans Support prohibits him than a few years ago.