May 29, 2019

Anna Murray 

The US-China trade war has begun to intensify since mid-May this year, and the two countries have higher tariffs on each other's goods. In the past year, the official media reported this trade war was more de-emphasized with China’s attitude. Just in the Beijing Trade Representative Liu He, the deputy prime minister. This trip to Washington did not reach an agreement, and the Chinese national media began to discuss lively. Every media has expressed that they are not afraid of the attitude of the United States. It means that if the United States wants to fight, China will accompany it to the end, for China has seen all kinds of wars after 5,000 years of chaos.

In addition to reports on news issues, the movie station began to play anti-American films. The American film could not be allocated in China, including the “game of thrones” from HBO and “Avengers: Endgame”, which is one of the highest-grossing movie from the Walt Disney Co. These are unable to pass the Chinese censorship. And no one got the reason why it happened.

The situation of this boycott has occurred in Beijing in the past. In 2016, because South Korea set up missile systems in the United States, China had an unofficial boycott of South Korea, the popular KPOP stars in China do not have any performance in China. Moreover, China even compared the unequal treaties that foreign forces put on China during the Qing dynasty. Trump had said that trade with China could not be 50-50, and Chinese propagandists called this a "Century of Humiliation." In addition, the lyrics of the anti-Japanese film theme song of the 1960s have been adapted, meaning China was not afraid of provocative war.

This week, Fox commercial anchor Trish Regan and China CGTN anchor Liu Wei proposed and accepted the debate on trade war on the Internet. This sign indicates that Beijing’s attitude will become tougher and tougher.

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