China: Trump The Nation Builder - Tuesday's Edition

Trump: good or bad for the world?

Somewhere on the Chinese internet, probably in a comment on some video of Trump, someone typed three characters: 川建国. Chuan Jianguo, “Trump the Nation Builder.”

The joke requires context. Jianguo was what you named your son if he was born around 1949, the year Mao declared the People’s Republic. It’s a revolutionary name, a founding-father name. Sticking…