Donald Trumps America does more like Xi Jinpings China

For example, have you followed the case of Trumps' decision to deport members of the Venezuelan gang in Salvador despite an order of judges that the plane does not take off or, if he had already done so, that he is ordered to turn around?

The administration has chosen to ignore the decision. The deputy chief of staff of the White House for politics, Stephen Miller, said: this is undoubtedly the most illegal order A judge published in our lives. It is therefore now the president and his staff who decide which judicial orders are apparently legal.

Second, the concept of universal values ​​is prohibited. XI considers human rights as a challenge to the party rule. And Trump? The concept that everyone is equal is undermined by the attack on administrations against [diversity, equity and inclusion] Politicians, says Barme, who writes on the growing convergence of American and Chinese values ​​since 2017 China heritage.

They say that we do not want diversity, we want a monoculture, we do not want equity because we think that some people are more precious than others. Trump mainly pursues a massive re -registration by race, class, wealth and values.

The third taboo is civil society, which document n ° 9 describes as a serious form of political opposition. The party prohibits or strictly regulates any effort among citizens organizing for common purposes, whether it is a charity, a union or environmental NGOs, or a spiritual group such as Falun Dafa.

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Trump seeks to delegitimize and stop the movements of civil society with which he does not agree. Trumps Defense Secretary in 2020, Mark Esper, wrote that Trump asked him to order troops to be drawn In crowds of Black Lives Matter demonstrators: Can't you get them? Just pull them in the legs or something like that?

Trump has forgiven more than 1000 people found guilty of having invaded and vandalized the Capitol on January 6, but says that people vandalize Tesla cars will be marked domestic terrorists By its administration, opening up the prospect of serious punishment. It is an incredibly familiar territory, known as Barme, citing the use of the Chinas of the term of reversal of the power of the State to crush protest movements.

The compensable fourth Chinese is neoliberalism because it is an idea that undermines control of the state of the economy by advocating complete and free reinstallations from the market forces.

Likewise, Trump is retiring from American neoliberalism by applying new prices. It is a mercantilist who thinks that the government should design positive commercial sales by market intervention.

The fifth is independent journalism. Chinas censorship and propaganda machines are known to cancel independent reports and debate. XI said all the media in China share the same family name.

In the United States, Trump recently delivered a speech to the Ministry of Justice where he said that CNN and MSNBC were illegal, what they do is illegal And must stop. Their crime? They literally write 97.6% bad about me. In addition, Trump continues the media from which he does not like the cover. ABC News settled by pouring $ 15 million. It requires that $ 20 billion in CBS damages for the path 60 minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris.

Trump threatened to revoke broadcasting licenses and prison journalists. Under Trump, the Federal Communications Commission launched multiple media surveys for the falsification of information.

The sixth Taboo of Chinas is what Xi calls historical nihilism. This aims to limit honest accounts for previous errors of the parties such as the Ahead and the Cultural revolution. Criticism of the past of the parties could undermine the opinion of the present parts, he fears.

Barme says that a showcase of the Trumpian equivalent is his opposition to The New York Times Project 1619who has cropped American history around the experience of slaves. Trump set up a refutation committee, the 1776 committee. It promotes revisionist stories of Confederation, Slavery and Civil War.

The last taboo is against any effort to contest the reform and openness as defined by XI. Barme finds his analogue in the prevailing intolerance of the criticism of his decrees.

The United States, of course, remain much more free and more disputed a society than the People's Republic. But after only two months after the current term, the trends are all Chinese, seven for seven.

It is increasingly difficult by day for Australia and other American allies to claim values ​​shared with America under Trump.