{"id":36749,"date":"2021-09-12T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/11\/alt-right-finds-new-partners-in-hate-on-chinas-internet"},"modified":"2021-09-12T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T19:00:31","slug":"alt-right-finds-new-partners-in-hate-on-chinas-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36749","title":{"rendered":"Alt-right finds new partners in hate on China\u2019s internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Populists and nationalists are spreading anti-Muslim, anti-feminist messages \u2013 but also backing the Communist party line<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the 2016 US election campaign, Fang Kecheng, a former journalist at the liberal-leaning Chinese newspaper <em>Southern Weekly<\/em> and then a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, began fact-checking Donald Trump\u2019s statements on refugees and Muslims on Chinese social media, hoping to provide additional context to the reporting of the presidential candidate back home in China. But his effort was quickly met with fierce criticism on the Chinese internet.<\/p>\n<p>Some accused him of being a \u201cwhite left\u201d \u2013 a popular insult for idealistic, leftwing and western-oriented liberals; others labelled him a \u201cvirgin\u201d, a \u201cbleeding heart\u201d and a \u201cwhite lotus\u201d \u2013 demeaning phrases that describe do-gooders who care about the underprivileged &#8211; as he tried to defend women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/11\/alt-right-finds-new-partners-in-hate-on-chinas-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populists and nationalists are spreading anti-Muslim, anti-feminist messages \u2013 but also backing the Communist party lineIn the early days of the 2016 US election campaign, Fang Kecheng, a former journalist at the liberal-leaning Chinese newspaper South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,351,238,235,1218,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-internet","category-media","category-social-media","category-the-far-right","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36750,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions\/36750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}